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Default 2.2 million without power, in the northeast

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in
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Thanks for the field report. Glad you are common sense, and
practical fellow.

"Ed Pawlowskio" wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:20:10 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

Sorry to hear you were without power. What did you do, in
response? Light candles, or what?



Lit a couple of kerosene lamps. They give enough light to
get by for hours. We have a gas stove so cooking is not a
problem either. I was going to bed early, blew out the light, and the
power came back on.


We were using a propane camping light, and LED flaslights. Will go and
buy 1 or 2 propane ceramic heating stoves tomorrow. With that I think we
could withstand several days of no power, and it's comsidrably cheaper
than a $1000 generator. We used a rather big camping cooler with ice for
the perishables.

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Han
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