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I'm freezing! - specops56 - 01-10-2025
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!!!!!
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Terry
RE: I'm freezing! - olfart - 01-10-2025
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.
RE: I'm freezing! - tommag - 01-10-2025
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.
RE: I'm freezing! - olfart - 01-10-2025
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.
RE: I'm freezing! - Rampy - 01-10-2025
(6 hours ago)specops56 Wrote: 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
Ummmm, must be global climate cooling 🤪🤪
RE: I'm freezing! - specops56 - 01-10-2025
As long as I have power I use the electric space heaters. Wehn the power goes out I'll break out the propane heaters and cooking stove. I just crack open the fireplace flue for ventilation.
Terry
RE: I'm freezing! - Rampy - 01-10-2025
(4 hours ago)olfart Wrote: 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.
Yep, it’s got to be global cooling, that’s got to be down right frigid in your area l, hopefully your critters are all warm & safe
RE: I'm freezing! - Rampy - 01-10-2025
(4 hours ago)tommag Wrote: 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.
The buddy series of propane heaters are nice, have a small one we ran in a tent and it was soooooo comfortable
RE: I'm freezing! - Rampy - 01-10-2025
(1 hour ago)specops56 Wrote: As long as I have power I use the electric space heaters. Wehn the power goes out I'll break out the propane heaters and cooking stove. I just crack open the fireplace flue for ventilation.
Terry
Hopefully you don’t loose power As that would really suck