, we used to lose electricity frequently because the lines ran through the woods and every time a branch blew down, there went our electric. But they buried our power lines a couple years ago and I don't think we have lost power since that occurred. I do have a gas stove and a gas fireplace, so I can still cook on the stove top and my living room stays warm even if I do lose Electric. My biggest problem is water because I have a well and a pump and the pump will not work without electric. I have two Big 5 gallon containers in the laundry room that have water in them that I can access if that happens. And I do have filters and could take water from out of the spring if it was a situation where I was stranded!
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oh well hey Melinda it sounds like you have a good set up there and have contingencies in place at least for the water if there's a water shortage. Sounds like the only problem would be if the gas had a shortage at the same time that the electric was out but I'm sure that's not going to happen.
Staying warm this time of year would be a big concern. My fireplace is rated to burn wood, but that would require a chainsaw and being able-bodied enough to make firewood! I thought about getting a generator but if there was no natural gas odds are there would probably be a shortage of gasoline also to keep the generator running. Right? I'm not sure what the solution is. Wearing a down coat and hat and mittens in my kitchen?
haha! precisely. I don't know what the emergency solutions would be but it's hard to imagine that the gas and electric would go off at the same time. I guess you could lay up a supply of wood to burn, like a weeks worth or something, burn just enough to keep from freezing. Wow that would be brutal up there! How did the pioneers survive?
They must have shivered a lot, huh? I do have a couple tanks of propane around here for my gas grill. But I'm pretty sure you can asphyxiate yourself by trying to stay warm with that kind of heat! I do have lots of candles, haha. I have heated with wood for much of my life at one point we had a wood-burning furnace down in the basement that was a combination unit and when the wood fire died down the natural gas would kick in. And I had a wood/gas cookstove in the kitchen and a wood-burning stove in the living room so I do know how to build a fire and keeping warm that way is familiar to me, I just don't have the means to do that in this house. Maybe a little wood burning stove connected to the fireplace chimney wouldn't be a bad idea.
Okay I am totally rambling here. Talk to you tomorrow
howdy today melinda010100! hey but your ramblings sound better than my supposed well-thought out comments! lol. and they make sense too. I agree that your idea of having a small wood burning stove connected to the fireplace might be a good idea if it didn't ruin the look of your living room, the fireplace is too inefficient I assume? I've heard that the suck more heat out of the house than they put out but that doesn't make much sense to me and I don't remember where I heard that one! What do you think since you are the experienced one with wood?
At the family gatherings the wood stove would be very nice to have going in the winter time wouldn't it? With the smell and all, it would add to the already festive atmosphere too!
Hey to you get that Steem-stats report everyday? I see that you are on the comments list on todays report.
I didn't see a Steem-stats report that mentioned me! How do I find that?
I agree that fireplaces are extremely in efficient. I sold them use mine and only turn it on low occasionally just for the ambiance. It does put out a little heat into the living room but that is where the thermostat for the furnace is, so it gets warm in the living room and the furnace doesn't kick on and the rest of the house gets freezing cold.
I would love a little woodstove there, but this house is not well setup for hauling in wood and hauling out ashes. There would be too many rooms that I would have to go through and I can't even imagine the mess! I'll have to do a little research and think about it.
howdy back Melinda! I'm sorry I mis-stated the name of that stats outfit, it's steem-data not steem stats. Anyway I just started receiving daily reports from them for some reason and when I look on the stats for the comments each day I'm usually the only human on there in with all the bots but yesterday your name was there too a few down from mine! lol. so we're keeping up with the bots! lol. yay!
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As far as the little wood burning stove I think it would be for when you had company and then in case of a big disaster or outtages, an emergency situation in other words. Because I agree, otherwise it would be too much of a hassle. Do you have a basement and maybe could store some wood down there or move it or have it moved onto the deck in the winter in case of something serious? Just thinking outloud.
One of the things about Texas is we don't have to worry about that too much although the last 2 years it got down to 13 and 14 degrees which was highly unusual and alot of people had their water lines freeze and burst. We had to buy electric heaters because our heat pumps didn't warm the house but out here in the country everyone has big propane tanks for supplemental heat and now we know why!