Advice to survive the ice and snow storms from a previous article I quoted:

• Keep space heaters at least three feet away from flammable materials, such as drapes, furniture and bedding. Product safety regulators also advise people to plug the devices directly into wall outlets — not power strips — and to turn them off when you're sleeping.
• Gasoline-powered generators can emit carbon monoxide. As a result, the CPSC says portable generators should only be placed outdoors and at least 20 feet from the home.
• Install smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, and test them to make sure they are working properly. The safety watchdog says these alarms should be placed on every level of a home, with smoke alarms in each bedroom.
• Hire a professional to check fuel-burning heating systems, such as furnaces, boilers, fireplaces and wood stoves. The CPSC says carbon monoxide poisoning can occur if heating systems are not installed correctly. Fireplaces can also be risky if chimneys are cracked or have other issues.

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In my own life I have made the mistake of running my gasoline powered generators in my garage. What is the problem with this you say?"

The problem for me is that  there is a door and a staircase running up from my garage to my kitchen and living room which can be a problem if the garage door is open and the wind blows the wrong direction and someone leaves the door to the garage area from the kitchen open and the wind blows the door open along with the Carbon monoxide.

So, eventually I bought a plastic shed the kind you might store firewood in from Ace hardware then put this in my backyard next to my trash bins and recycling. This way the carbon monoxide has no real useful way to silently poison me and my family because of this.

However, I have noticed that newer smaller generators maybe like Yamaha 2000 inverter like I have and maybe Honda smaller generators have something that shuts off the engine automatically if there is too much carbon dioxide in the air around the generator. 

So, I had to learn how to run the generator in the right ways so that the automatic carbon monoxide detector doesn't shut off the generator.

I wouldn't try to disable this by the way simply because it is there to keep you and your family alive even though it is sometimes problematic because after it shuts down the engine you cannot restart it for around 15 minutes to 1/2 hour before it resets itsself.

Anyway, Don't die of carbon monoxide poisoning because it has no smell at all and can be lethal (even when you cannot smell or detect it with your nose.

Also, this is not Carbon Dioxide which we breathe out after breathing in Oxygen into our lungs and bodies too. 

NOTE: a standing heater or space heater draws too much power to be connected via a surge protector and you don't want to start a potential fire or blow out your surge protector permanently by doing this. You also shouldn't plug it into an octopus either (an octopus is a jerry rigged thing that accepts too many plugs to be safe and not start a fire potentially.