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Originally Posted by KC911
Good luck Jack! Tho' very rare here, once a decade or so we have a nasty ice storm with hundreds of thousands losing power .... my longest outage was mebbe 12 hours ... same with my parents' house ... over the past few decades. My friends a few miles away were "last to be restored" 20 years ago ... 11 daze with no power ... they were campers so no problem. Later they discovered they had gas logs in their fireplace ... that worked .... doh  ! |
I have one of those that I keep for just that reason. A few years back, we were without electric for 4 days in the middle of the winter. The gas logs kept the house in the 70's the whole time. (propane fireplace)
It's a nice stand-by heat source.