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On 1 May 2018 03:52:15 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
wrote:

>In article <89dfedpcidtjo4uib...@4ax.com>,
>J. Clarke  <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 30 Apr 2018 22:53:09 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
>><tednolan>) wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>You had an aunt in Fernandina Beach?  I went to 4th through 12th grade
>>there.
>>
>
>Yep, she lived on 7th St. between Centre & Ash.  As kids we walked all over
>that town.  I still visit whenever I can.

I remember being dragged kicking and screaming to church at Saint
Peters when I would really rather have been doing just about anything.
Used to buy comic books at Steger's, and get an ice cream cone at Waas
after Dr. Stewart whose office was behind it after getting my teeth
drilled.  And Dr. Dickens driving around in his Land Rover.  And what
else.  Oh, I was sad to see that they tore down the old Welcome
Station and replaced it with something boring and ordinary.