[nuz]

"The Norwegian information also talks about how to survive for three days without power"

I mean canned food etc is useful but you wouldn't even die from starvation if you stood outside for that amount of time.

[Maxion]

In most of the Nordics a significant portion of the population would easily die after around 12-24 hours of no power for large parts of the year. It's very goddamned cold up here.

[SoftTalker]

In the places where people actually live in large numbers it's not quite that severe, but yes it can get cold.

[ACS_Solver]

It's cold here in Scandinavia. Nighttime temperatures are below freezing for half a year in a good chunk of the land. Winters are in general cold for a significant part of the population, three days without heating would be a serious danger if you don't know how to keep your home (relatively) warm in an emergency. When outside temperatures are around -15C, a house with no power can easily get cold enough to risk hypothermia. And in the winter, -30C is perfectly ordinary.

[blub]

I struggle to think of a way of keeping an entire house or apartment warm without power.

Is there an actual solution recommended by the respective governments for this or was the problem reformulated into keeping one or more persons warm instead?

[sebtron]

> you wouldn't even die from starvation if you stood outside for that amount of time

Right, you would die of hypothermia much earlier

[mantas]

Standing outside wouldn’t work for a good portion of the year…

[potato3732842]

They're not worried about you dying in five days. They're worried about breakdown of law and order.