Posted by Tony Wesley on April 7, 2007, 9:17 pm
wrote:
> > I've got a couple of natural gas heaters that don't need electricity and will
> > heat the house or at least this part of the house.
> Very good thinking! This will get you by for 90% of all ice storms and
> other power outages. But what about the rare natural gas outage?
I have two Mr. Heater Buddy heaters. For the garage but emergency use
was definitely a consideration for getting them.
>From one 20 pound pound propane tank, I figure I can run both (9000
BTU / hour ear) for about 25 hours.
Posted by Moe on April 8, 2007, 8:59 am
Tony Wesley wrote:
> wrote:
>>
>
>>> I've got a couple of natural gas heaters that don't need electricity and will
>>> heat the house or at least this part of the house.
>> Very good thinking! This will get you by for 90% of all ice storms and
>> other power outages. But what about the rare natural gas outage?
>
> I have two Mr. Heater Buddy heaters. For the garage but emergency use
> was definitely a consideration for getting them.
>
>>From one 20 pound pound propane tank, I figure I can run both (9000
> BTU / hour ear) for about 25 hours.
>
I live in Oklahoma, if the natural gas goes out here, we have a lot
more serious problems then just keeping warm! Tornadoes are our biggest
natural threat. The ice storm a few years ago isn't apt to happen again
for another 10 years or longer. It was weird, standing in the front
yard I could hear limbs breaking for a radius of a couple of blocks,
some sounded like guns going off, mother nature did a lot of pruning
that night, all the streets became blocked so vehicles were unable to
drive and there was no sound or light, it was like being out in the
country. The limbs fell on the power lines pulling them down. With no
electricity the gas stations couldn't pump the gas they had. After the
streets were cleared people were driving 25 miles round trip to get to a
gas station that had a standby generator that could sell gas. In a
couple of days the electricity was back on to the main feeds and stores
were able to reopen. Lowe's had a standby generator and was able to
stay open and that helped a lot. People could buy kerosene, heaters,
chainsaws and generators there. It was interesting how people could
cope when they had to. Main problem was trees blocking the streets at
first, then the electricity, then the clean up of all the tree limbs and
damage due to some collapsed buildings etc. A major hailstorm also
caused a lot of solid waste problems at the landfill once. All the old
shingles were going to fill the available landfill space so they had to
be stockpiled until they could get permission to be disposed of in an
approved manner.
Water/beer, food, shelter, warmth, TV/radio, Internet gotta have the
necessities.
Oh well, enough of this, the printer is finished, back to doing my
taxes.
Posted by Solar Flaire on June 8, 2007, 12:03 pm
In all that description I didn't read if the NG stayed on.
There's no place like home. There's no....
> I live in Oklahoma, if the natural gas goes out here, we have a
> lot more serious problems then just keeping warm! Tornadoes are our
> biggest natural threat. The ice storm a few years ago isn't apt to
> happen again for another 10 years or longer. It was weird, standing
> in the front yard I could hear limbs breaking for a radius of a
> couple of blocks, some sounded like guns going off, mother nature
> did a lot of pruning that night, all the streets became blocked so
> vehicles were unable to drive and there was no sound or light, it
> was like being out in the country. The limbs fell on the power
> lines pulling them down. With no electricity the gas stations
> couldn't pump the gas they had. After the streets were cleared
> people were driving 25 miles round trip to get to a gas station that
> had a standby generator that could sell gas. In a couple of days
> the electricity was back on to the main feeds and stores were able
> to reopen. Lowe's had a standby generator and was able to stay open
> and that helped a lot. People could buy kerosene, heaters,
> chainsaws and generators there. It was interesting how people
> could cope when they had to. Main problem was trees blocking the
> streets at first, then the electricity, then the clean up of all the
> tree limbs and damage due to some collapsed buildings etc. A major
> hailstorm also caused a lot of solid waste problems at the landfill
> once. All the old shingles were going to fill the available
> landfill space so they had to be stockpiled until they could get
> permission to be disposed of in an approved manner.
> Water/beer, food, shelter, warmth, TV/radio, Internet gotta have
> the necessities.
> Oh well, enough of this, the printer is finished, back to doing
> my taxes.
Posted by Moe on April 9, 2007, 8:47 am
Solar Flaire wrote:
> In all that description I didn't read if the NG stayed on.
>
> There's no place like home. There's no....
>
>> I live in Oklahoma, if the natural gas goes out here, we have a
>> lot more serious problems then just keeping warm! Tornadoes are our
>> biggest natural threat. The ice storm a few years ago isn't apt to
>> happen again for another 10 years or longer. It was weird, standing
>> in the front yard I could hear limbs breaking for a radius of a
>> couple of blocks, some sounded like guns going off, mother nature
>> did a lot of pruning that night, all the streets became blocked so
>> vehicles were unable to drive and there was no sound or light, it
>> was like being out in the country. The limbs fell on the power
>> lines pulling them down. With no electricity the gas stations
>> couldn't pump the gas they had. After the streets were cleared
>> people were driving 25 miles round trip to get to a gas station that
>> had a standby generator that could sell gas. In a couple of days
>> the electricity was back on to the main feeds and stores were able
>> to reopen. Lowe's had a standby generator and was able to stay open
>> and that helped a lot. People could buy kerosene, heaters,
>> chainsaws and generators there. It was interesting how people
>> could cope when they had to. Main problem was trees blocking the
>> streets at first, then the electricity, then the clean up of all the
>> tree limbs and damage due to some collapsed buildings etc. A major
>> hailstorm also caused a lot of solid waste problems at the landfill
>> once. All the old shingles were going to fill the available
>> landfill space so they had to be stockpiled until they could get
>> permission to be disposed of in an approved manner.
>> Water/beer, food, shelter, warmth, TV/radio, Internet gotta have
>> the necessities.
>> Oh well, enough of this, the printer is finished, back to doing
>> my taxes.
>
>
Gas and water kept working,
Sorry about the long post, I was putting off doing my taxes.
Posted by Solar Flaire on April 9, 2007, 10:07 am
LOL. Know what ya mean.
I thought you were promoting the NG and I have heard this before. I
just could find the climax. Don't you just hate when there is no
climax?...LOL
> Solar Flaire wrote:
>> In all that description I didn't read if the NG stayed on.
>>
>> There's no place like home. There's no....
>>
>>> I live in Oklahoma, if the natural gas goes out here, we have a
>>> lot more serious problems then just keeping warm! Tornadoes are
>>> our biggest natural threat. The ice storm a few years ago isn't
>>> apt to happen again for another 10 years or longer. It was weird,
>>> standing in the front yard I could hear limbs breaking for a
>>> radius of a couple of blocks, some sounded like guns going off,
>>> mother nature did a lot of pruning that night, all the streets
>>> became blocked so vehicles were unable to drive and there was no
>>> sound or light, it was like being out in the country. The limbs
>>> fell on the power lines pulling them down. With no electricity
>>> the gas stations couldn't pump the gas they had. After the
>>> streets were cleared people were driving 25 miles round trip to
>>> get to a gas station that had a standby generator that could sell
>>> gas. In a couple of days the electricity was back on to the main
>>> feeds and stores were able to reopen. Lowe's had a standby
>>> generator and was able to stay open and that helped a lot. People
>>> could buy kerosene, heaters, chainsaws and generators there. It
>>> was interesting how people could cope when they had to. Main
>>> problem was trees blocking the streets at first, then the
>>> electricity, then the clean up of all the tree limbs and damage
>>> due to some collapsed buildings etc. A major hailstorm also
>>> caused a lot of solid waste problems at the landfill once. All
>>> the old shingles were going to fill the available landfill space
>>> so they had to be stockpiled until they could get permission to be
>>> disposed of in an approved manner.
>>> Water/beer, food, shelter, warmth, TV/radio, Internet gotta
>>> have the necessities.
>>> Oh well, enough of this, the printer is finished, back to
>>> doing my taxes.
>>
>>
> Gas and water kept working,
> Sorry about the long post, I was putting off doing my taxes.
>
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> > heat the house or at least this part of the house.
> Very good thinking! This will get you by for 90% of all ice storms and
> other power outages. But what about the rare natural gas outage?