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Originally Posted by masraum
The emergency is absolutely electric. There's no gas or any utility other than electric.
A lot of the homes in the rural areas have large tanks that they get filled from time to time. I'm not sure if they are propane or some other sort of fuel. I could see converting to one of those for heat since this home is farther inland from Houston and gets cooler weather.
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Those tanks are propane. Natural gas appliances can run on propane but require an adapter to restrict the flow as IIRC, propane is more energy-dense than natural gas (methane). Everyone who lives out in the country here has propane for heat.
You might want to check if the electric heating coils used for emergency heat need to be replaced. Ones that are 30 years old almost certainly need replacing. My understanding is that they don't degrade so much a break. You may have had 5 coils 30 years ago and 3 may have worn out and snapped, limiting how much emergency heat your system can produce.