Went through it in '98 at my parent's place in Maine. We went 69 hours without power and were some of the lucky ones, others went weeks.
Some of my mom's friends had an all electric house, they came to stay with us after the house started to get really cold about 48 hours in. My folks have a coal burning stove, that combined with the gas range made things quite liveable. We've got some ice right now but nothing like you've got. Our house has a woodburning stove and I've got a whitegas campstove to cook on if we lose power. Not to mention the gas grill I don't have any propane for, oops. I looked at a little radient heater at the hardware store that can double as a cooker, something like 14,000 BTU on high IIRC. Ahh here it is http://www.mrheater.com/productdetails_extended.asp?catid=42&id=22 I know it says outdoor use only but I'd guess thats to keep the law away. Seems like it'd be a big help if there were no power. -Curt Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:27:40 -0600 From: "OK Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] I'm iced up! To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 That's what the Rocky Mountains are for - star gazing. Woke up this morning to several tree limbs on and behind the SDL and the wife's van - spent the morning clearing them away, in the freezing rain, picked the wife for lunch, and found three more large limbs down when I got back. You hear a crack, then the tumbling of iced limbs through those still standing about every ten minutes - all day long. Where's global waming when you need it? it's not that cold (thankfully) - hovering around 30F. On Dec 10, 2007 12:34 PM, LarryT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curt wrote:<<sky over the lake is just as black as could be with a billion > stars >> > > I wish everyone could see a sky like that at least once in their life. -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." -Benjamin Disraeli and/or Mark Twain '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
