For those who did not manage to buy portable gas heaters and stoves, firebricks have become a popular commodity. Users of the social network Threads show how to raise the temperature in a room by several degrees using simple homemade heaters. Those who have gas in their apartments or houses place bricks on the gas stove. As they heat up, the bricks give off heat and warm the room.
Those who live in high-rise buildings where gas is not used create a structure out of candles, barbecue grills and bricks laid on the grill. This method is effective but also unsafe. People online also remind users that it is important to use detectors for carbon monoxide and smoke.
A safer and equally popular way to keep warm is to use a regular camping tent. As social media users have discovered, if you set up a tent right in the bedroom and put a few plastic bottles filled with hot water inside, you will sleep warmer. Those who do not have camping experience and/or equipment recall their childhood and build tents out of blankets.
In general, most social media users agreed that hot water bottles in bed are the easiest and safest way to keep warm at night. They write that the heat from the bottles lasts for about four to five hours. Electric blankets are useful if they can be plugged in.
Businesses with generators are also reaching out on social media to offer shelter and help to those without power and electricity. In addition to the mobile heating points set up by the State Emergency Service and charitable organizations, local residents are creating their own shelters.
Minnesota officials are rebuffing a series of demands from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, as the state continues its clash with the Trump administration over the surge of federal immigration enforcement in the North Star state.
A top Republican candidate for Minnesota governor has dropped out of the race, sharply criticizing what he called a “federal retribution on the citizens of our state” amid the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement operations – which sparked public outrage after US agents’ killings ofAlex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) urged President Trump’s MAGA base to “take off their political blinders” as she expressed skepticism about the use of force deployed during the latest shooting in Minnesota involving a federal immigration agent.
Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez said she has had enough of orders from Washington, in a speech to a group of oil workers broadcast on Venezuela’s state-run television network Sunday.
