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Trooper61
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# Posted: 20 Jan 2026 11:32am
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We’ve got some bad winter weather coming up this weekend and everybody on the local news is saying we’re going to experience widespread power outages. So I went out and bought two of these:
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Trooper61
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# Posted: 20 Jan 2026 11:33am
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The gas logs in the fireplace are rotten and too expensive to replace right now.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 20 Jan 2026 01:51pm
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Be sure to crack some windows for some cross ventilation since any combustion uses up oxygen even it isn't making significant CO, which you should also have an alarm for.
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Trooper61
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# Posted: 20 Jan 2026 05:23pm
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Absolutely I will. I’m going to Home Depot in the morning.
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mj1angier
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# Posted: 20 Jan 2026 06:19pm
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Lord the smell of those brings back the late 70's early 80's. Just everyone in the family ran one to boost the heat on extra cold days
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philpom
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# Posted: 20 Jan 2026 09:03pm
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Indeed it will be very cold everywhere. We actually canceled a trip up to our cabin over the weather. Not to avoid the weather but to avoid the drive. We are also expecting significant wintery mix and lows around 6°f at our home in Texas, the cabin will survive just fine, I need to be in Texas to tend.
We lived in this house through the Texas snowpocolypse of 2021. It was down around 5°, we stayed very cold for over a week. Our power went out the first night and a day later we got 20 min of electricity, then a few hours of nothing, then 20 more minutes. This continued for 5 days. We have natural gas in this house with a gas fireplace. Saved our butts. I ran the blower fan with an inverter on a deep cycle, put a little juice back in it when the power popped on every few hours. No broken pipes hear but many other not so lucky. People were burning their furniture in the fireplace to stay warm.
After that I installed a 50amp inlet and bought a large propane generator. That same year I dropped a 300 gallon propane tank up at the cabin. I have a transfer switch etc ready to install up there, another project one day.
I know everyone hear is generally prepared ( my guess ) but probably a good idea to be a little extra.
Stay warm and take care.
Mark
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Brettny
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2026 06:20am
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I tried useing one of those K1 heaters in my garage. The thing always stunk and always smoked. Even tried a different wick. Gave up on it and chucked it.
Our primary heat is wood stove so power outage dosnt really matter.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2026 10:57am - Edited by: gcrank1
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When we had a kero heater (decades ago) it would burn anything, diesel, any grade zero but we had to use K1, the ultra clean, extra refined, Expensive! fuel or we couldn't take it, though others, who were used to being around diesels didn't mind. Then I started running heavy equipment and got used to it and the heater on K1 was ok....go figure, lol.
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