"toller" wrote in message
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I expect you are a troll, (I have trouble believing
anyone would heat with their oven) but just in case
you aren't...

240v heaters are readily available; just call some
people in the phone book. If they don't have them,
ask who does.

However your electric bill will be huge.

Your best option would be to get a kerosene heater
and, just to be safe, a CO detector. Don't know
where you are, but it should keep your house
habitable unless you are in Minnesota. They don't
smell too good, but I used one for a week during a
power outage and we all survived.

I grew up using a space heater at home, and thought
nothing of it. Well, until I left for the military,
and came back; by then I was smart enough to know there
were better ways if you could afford it g. We had
one wood stove, in the kitchen, which we also used.
During the evening the portable heater heated the
living room. At night it got carried between our two
bedrooms: Whoever woke up had permission to go and get
the heater and move it into their own room. Never
thought much of it, really, as it was "just that way it
was" at that time.
I"ve still got that old portable space heater and
even used it during the infamous "ice storm of '98" for
5 days.

We've used our oven a couple of times for heat during
more minor outages, but it shouldn't really be run for
more than an hour or so unless you live in an
uninsulated, very drafty house. The gas is odorless
and colorless, and is heavier than air, so especially
if you're sleeping it would be easy to succumb to it.

Thank heavens life's not like that anymore, but I've
always found it strange how, when you're raised rather
poor, it's OK because as a kid, you don't really know
it. If you're happy, and we were, everything was just
fine.

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