John Gilmer wrote:
What you need is an alternative heat source that doesn't use AC power.

Kerocene heaters are one possibility.

A "ventless" LPG heaters are also OK.

They can keep one room confortable and a house from freezing in most
conditions.

A generator will cost much more than a "backup" heat source and may be
difficult to impossible to start when you really need it.


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If you are going to spend money on an alternative heater then spend it
smart. Buy a vented cabinet gas heater with a window venting kit.
Those heaters take their combustion air from the middle layer of the
triple walled vent pipe and exhaust their products of combustion through
the center pipe of the same assembly. They burn no heated air and leave
nothing inside the home but heat. They do cost more then a portable or
unvented combustion heater but they don't have the long track record of
causing and aggravating respiratory ailments in children and the
elderly. They also lack the portable combustion heater's long record of
death by fire or asphyxia.
--
Tom Horne

"This alternating current stuff is just a fad. It is much too dangerous
for general use." Thomas Alva Edison