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Dean Hoffman Dean Hoffman is offline
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Default Preparing for Power Outages?

In article ,
"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:

"Shawn Hirn" wrote in message

Heating where I live is by oil, so I don't need
power to have my heat,


What type of heater that does not need power?


My parents had a Siegler stove in the living room of their old
farmhouse. It burned kerosene. No fan. I think one just threw a bit
of wadded up newspaper in the bottom to light it.
I had a natural gas floor furnace in one house. No fan. The
thermostat ran off a thermocoupler type device, I think. It looked
like this: http://tinyurl.com/2zeweo

Dean

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