Jim Dunmyer said the following to Brien Page on the subject of
POWER FACTOR IN DC CC (30 Jan 98  08:31:35)
 >JD> So you must lift & carry 20 tons of wood over a Winter, or 40,000 lbs!
 >JD> That might be OK for a younger person, but what about the old or 
firm?
 >
 > Which is why mom and dad only heated with a wood stove for one
 > winter after I married and moved out. :-)  Sure wish I had a spot to
 > put that Ashley wood stove.
 JD> Which is why MY Dad got a riding lawn tractor after I moved out.
 JD> >
 JD> After reading about the ice storm, I told my wife that it might be a
 JD> good idea to leave our stove in place, even if we haven't used it for
 JD> several years.
Really great advice. My next door neighbor went around this fall giving
away his firewood because his wife didn't like the wood stove sooting up
the walls. On the 3rd day of the outage I found him scrambling for
anything that burned. Luckily another neighbor who had decided to
evacuate let him cart away all the logs he wanted. My own wood being
limited I helped by stringing an extension cord to his oil burner.
We all managed okay then. Still in the worst of it we were having maybe
an average of 1 death a day from fire, asphyxiation, exposure, and so
on. Most of these preventable too.
... Ice Storm of the Century refugee.
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