Re: A conclusion you won't believe.

In article <fj9jum$if9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Shelly <shelly@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Everything, even my furnace, is electric.

Even with a gas furnace (which I have), you need electricity to power
the fan and unit itself.

When the power is out,
there's no cooking, no heat, no hot water, no nuthin'.

We have an electric stove. I hate it, but no more than when I know
there's a gas pipe right behind the freakin' thing and I wish I could
wave a magic wand and replace it!

In the next year, we plan on putting in a new kitchen (in a new location
in the house as well), and the cooktop will be GAS. The oven(s) will be
electric convection, but I don't need to rely on ovens in a power outage.

The woodstove insert in our downstairs fireplace was an exceptionally
good investment. We have an upstairs fireplace as well, but don't use
it all that often (both need to be cranking in order to not get smoke on
the other floor).

I suppose I
could buy a kerosene heater, but I'd be scared to use it in such a
tightly insulated space, and where the heck would I store the fuel?

I have one that we got so DH could finish some doors out in the garage
one winter. It would be a last resort to use it in the house. I
don't find them safe and they stink.

A gas grill is an interesting thought, but I'm not a cooker-outer,
so I'd have a hard time justifying it. Maybe a hibachi and a bag of
charcoal briquettes?

You can get SMALL grills that use little cans of propane. I have a
little butane cooktop as well, purchased after the 5 day stint (we had
another 4 days after a hurricane, later that year, but the weather was
lovely then). Haven't used it. It's insurance.

There are about 11 houses in a little loop in my neighborhood, mine
being one of them, that lose power when none of the rest of the
neighborhood does. It's really awful to look across the street and see
neighbors flaunting their power! A few years ago, people ran extension
cords to the lightpoles of the neighbors across the street. It was
pretty funny to drive into the neighborhood - thump, thump, thump,
thump......

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Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com
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