Comments on: No Power? No Hot Water? Cloth Diapers?

By: Chessie

Chessie — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:13:59 +0000

I’m aware that this is an old post but I felt compelled to add my two cents. I was trapped for over 4 days with my six month old son without electricity during a nasty snow storm. We were using disposables at the time but had I been cloth diapering, I would’ve thrown the diapers in the machine and heated water on top of the kerosene heater to hand wash with. We used it to cook things like soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. It smelled awful in the house, but it worked. We turned the heater down at night to conserve kerosene and managed to make it through. We had no 4 wheel drive and couldn’t leave our home. We played scrabble by candle light and listened to an old old battery powered radio for any news about road conditions. It might be tough but if water is available, it’s totally doable.

By: Allison B

Allison B — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:17:21 +0000

We thankfully didn’t lose power during Sandy, but we do keep a stash of disposables on hand, so I’d probably use those instead of my cloth if I knew we’d be out of electricity for a while.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 04:50:51 +0000

During a power outage I would stop using pockets (which I love) and use the OS covers that we started out with when we first brought him home…along with disposable inserts.

By: Amber Lawrence-Whitted

Amber Lawrence-Whitted — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:32:14 +0000

Last year during Irene our power went out for days. I was so glad I had bought a pack of disposables just in case because it was out longer than expected.

By: Carrie C

Carrie C — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:11:01 +0000

Thankfully we were not affected by the storm, but we had family and friends who were. Thankfully they are all ok. Having just started cloth diapering, this storm made me think of what I would do in this situation. We don’t live where we would be in danger of a hurricane, but we do get some pretty bad storms and sometimes we do loose power. To be prepared, I think I will stock up on some flats – they would dry the quickest. To wash them, we have a wood stove that I could heat water on. Sure it would be a lot of work, but we could turn it into an adventure! As a last resort, I would also have some disposables around, just in case.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:08:51 +0000

We were without electric for a week. No laundry got done and we lost a refrigerator full of food. You never realize how dependent you are on things until they are no more. Definitely makes you rethink priorities and come up with creative ways to get things done.

By: Traci

Traci — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:49:41 +0000

I’m from PA and I made sure I had enough disposables on hand just in case. Fortunately, I didn’t need them – we never lost power. Praying for all those that weren’t so fortunate…

By: Bekah Kuczenski

Bekah Kuczenski — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:50:37 +0000

I live in WNY and when I heard there was a storm coming I did all my diaper laundry right before the storm hit so that if we did lose power I would hopefully have enough diapers to get by… But my back up plan was to buy some sposies because the thought of handwashing scared me lol.

By: Mallory

Mallory — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:03:23 +0000

we sadly used disposables for a few days … i despise them & all the garbage they create but i was really worried about getting stuck with no power and having nasty diapers mold and have to be thrown away :/ we were soooo glad to get back to CDs though! :]

By: Aryn Kennedy

Aryn Kennedy — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:07:09 +0000

I don’t live in hurricane country, but I do live in earthquake country. If we had one big enough to cut our power for an extended period, I’d switch to disposables. Natural disasters are enough to deal with without laundry!