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In article <pc80jk$ckf$1...@dont-email.me>,
Alan Bowler  <atbo...@thinkage.ca> wrote:
>On 2018-04-28 4:25 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>> 
>> Electricity heating has the disadvantage that if you had a
>> local power outage you had no heat. If you had some oil 
>> or gas powered system you had it at least warm,
>> although your fridge, TV and other appliances wouldn't work.
>
>Essentially, all modern oil and gas heating systems won't work
>if there is a local power outage.  The control and auxiliary
>systems (pumps, fans, igniters) are all electrically operated.
>
>During the big ice storm in 1998 homes gas and oil
>were just as unheated, as those with electric heat.
>
>Yes there were some old fuel old space heaters in small
>homes and cottages.  You turned it on by manually opening
>the fuel valve and dropping a burning piece of paper
>into the fire pit.  I have not seen one in a home in over
>60 years.  We had one in our cottage longer than that,
>but we did not use the cottage in the winter.

My aunt in Fernandina Beach had both an oil heater like that and
individual propane heaters/gas logs in the kitchen and other rooms.
We used to go down for Christmas, and the oil heater kept the main house
above freezing, but it was certainly nice to go into the toasty warmth
of the propane kitchen after dreading the freezing experience of getting
out of bed upstairs.  She never had central heat or ac as long as she lived.
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