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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KG5VW" data-source="post: 3929684" data-attributes="member: 41673"><p>My thoughts are to remove the excess loads that you really don’t need, run the heater warmer than you want, then disconnect the heat for a bit. Worst case move the food from the fridge to ice chests in the garage and unplug. Food will be fine for a couple of days in this weather. Don’t use the hot water heater either (instant on) or drain it and turn off breaker if you can block in the flow of water into it. Save the cooking for when the heat is off, should be able to stagger your usage to get you through until power comes back on. Write down all the stuff you may have turned off so you can turn it all back on. I am total electric but I installed a gas stove with the propane mod and run it on a 20 lbs grill cylinder. Using just the burners on top it went 6 months on a full cylinder. I only have a 3500 watt genny so I have no choice in shutting down the heavy loads if power goes out but with a wood stove in the livingroom I can provide heat as needed.</p></blockquote><p></p>