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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.

>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.