On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:48:40 -0500, Jeff Thies
wrote:

On 2/13/2014 6:32 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:56:05 -0800, "Lew Hodgett"
wrote:


"Jeff Thies" wrote:


I fall in the other group. In fact, I don't even see it as a door,
and have mentally filed it away. I like it.
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I know it's not Cleveland, but how is the weather in Atlanta?

Lost power for 30hrs.

Yikes.

It was 49F in the house this morning (the cats
were trying to share our body heat . We didn't eat much yesterday
(too cold to get out from under the covers for long) so went out for
lunch.

Restaurants were very busy, I've heard.

Yep. I've never been in a waiting line to get seated at 2:00 on a
weekday before. I think they were missing staff, though. We had
nowhere to go. ;-)

I've thought a bit about emergency heat, although I have a very seldom
used woodstove fireplace insert in a different part of the house.

Cleanest would be to get a propane cat heater, messier is to get some
lamp fuel for kerosene lanterns. It's about 1000 BTU/hr for each lamp, a
couple lamps could knock the chill off a room. White gas and a double
mantle "coleman" lamp would probably toast you up.

Just a thought.

We'll probably put vent-free gas logs in the fireplace. SWMBO wants a
the gas stove we had in our Alabama house, so we'll have to put LP in
anyway. It won't be a huge issue because the basement is unfinished.

We used kerosene heaters in NY for emergency heat. Not so good. In
VT we had a wood stove that would drive you out of the house if it
wasn't below 10F, or so. ;-) We never lost power for any time,
though. We're in a development now, too, but it's kinda out in the
boonies.