I'm freezing!

It's 31 degrees at my house right now. My backyard chain link fence has a coating of ice on it. Weatherman is calling for freezing rain overnight. It's not supposed to be this damn cold down here!!!!!  



Terry

Our high temp today has been 34. Our electricity went off at 10:00 last night and came back on at 10:00 this morning. Last night's ice storm has taken a toll on our trees. Luckily there's no ice on the roads, except probably bridges. Going down to 20 tonight, so the ice that melted today will make ice on the ground by morning.

An alternate heat source would be nice but I can't think of anything that's inexpensive. A used wood stove would be cheap but there's a bit of work installing the chimney. A lot of locations have prohibitions on their use as well. Besides that, how often would it be used, maybe a couple times a decade?
I've heard of un-vented propane heaters but that doesn't sound very safe.

We've used kerosene heaters. Pretty efficient and put out LOTS of heat. Few houses these days are tight enough to worry too much about CO, but a CO detector would be a good idea.