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<blockquote data-quote="mstang67chic" data-source="post: 340745" data-attributes="member: 2459"><p>DDD, we have a gas furnace but it too has an electric thermostat. If we lose power, we're up a creek so to speak. Our stove however, is gas so we could still cook. As we're in town, the water isn't generally an issue.</p><p></p><p>Growing up though.....THAT was a different story. The house I grew up in was in the country and had no central heating. When we moved in, there was a fuel oil heater in the kitchen that was for the entire 2 story house. It only took a couple of coooooold winters before my dad ripped that out and put in a wood burning stove in another room. I don't remember ever losing electricity but if we had, the only thing it would have affected would have been the well pump and the kitchen stove. But.....with the wood stove, we could always cook on that or on the kerosene heaters we had. The water would have been an issue but we've made do when pipes froze and collected clean snow and used that for the absolute necessities. There were also times when it would be so cold that we would shut off all but the bathroom, stove room, dining room and kitchen. We camped out on the dining room floor and shut up the rest of the house so we could stay warm. </p><p></p><p>We did have one winter when not only did our water lines freeze but so did the OUTGOING plumbing. Meaning.....we couldn't flush. So....we placed 2 five gallon buckets in the bathroom as well as a stack of paper grocer bags. One bucket was for liquids and the other was used along with the paper bag. Once you were done, you removed the bag, rolled it up and tossed it in the wood stove to dispose of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mstang67chic, post: 340745, member: 2459"] DDD, we have a gas furnace but it too has an electric thermostat. If we lose power, we're up a creek so to speak. Our stove however, is gas so we could still cook. As we're in town, the water isn't generally an issue. Growing up though.....THAT was a different story. The house I grew up in was in the country and had no central heating. When we moved in, there was a fuel oil heater in the kitchen that was for the entire 2 story house. It only took a couple of coooooold winters before my dad ripped that out and put in a wood burning stove in another room. I don't remember ever losing electricity but if we had, the only thing it would have affected would have been the well pump and the kitchen stove. But.....with the wood stove, we could always cook on that or on the kerosene heaters we had. The water would have been an issue but we've made do when pipes froze and collected clean snow and used that for the absolute necessities. There were also times when it would be so cold that we would shut off all but the bathroom, stove room, dining room and kitchen. We camped out on the dining room floor and shut up the rest of the house so we could stay warm. We did have one winter when not only did our water lines freeze but so did the OUTGOING plumbing. Meaning.....we couldn't flush. So....we placed 2 five gallon buckets in the bathroom as well as a stack of paper grocer bags. One bucket was for liquids and the other was used along with the paper bag. Once you were done, you removed the bag, rolled it up and tossed it in the wood stove to dispose of it. [/QUOTE]
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