I brumate all of my snakes in the winter (young ones too, after all--they're outside in the wild when they're young, right?). I do this to get them all good and cycled, cut down on the feeding bill, and cut down on my heating bill. If I actually had a power outage, the good propane heater would come out of the shed and do the trick for all of us (people and snakes)!
I'm not a newbie anymore! Actually, I've been on the boards for what seems like forever, and I was getting pretty tired of some of you real newbies posting so much and making me look like a slacker. Well, I'm still a slacker, but I'm not a newbie slacker anymore!
Darin