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<blockquote data-quote="p238shooter" data-source="post: 2683775" data-attributes="member: 24583"><p>Congratulations on your new home, I hope you enjoy living in the country close to the lake as much as we do.</p><p></p><p>I have a total electric house out in the country also, that was the only thing we did not like about it along with the expensive crappy internet service. </p><p></p><p>You will need to think about a power failure. My area had no power for 7 days a few years back during an ice storm. We were able to manage with a 6500 watt portable generator and four of the little heat strip box fan heaters and the fireplace. We ran the frig and freezers a couple hours each day, and had coffee, an electric skillet, and a microwave when we needed it. I had several gas cans I use for the mowers and the boat filled just in case, but had to make a fuel run after a few days. Our water plant was down 4 days, used the generator exhaust to melt 5 gal buckets of ice to pour in the toilets to flush. Cell phone tower ran out of diesel and went down after 4 days, used my ham radio running off the boat battery for communications to some friends who could make an emergency call if needed.</p><p></p><p>For practice, you might want to turn off your heat system and see how well your fireplace does for a day or two and think about things like enough extra heavy duty extension cords, working around your electric garage door opener, figuring out how to disable the dammed beep from the alarm system battery going down, extra flashlight batteries etc. Just after that outage I purchased a Grate-wall-of-Fire for our fireplace and it made a huge difference in the heat it put into the room rather than up the pipe, wish we had it earlier. </p><p></p><p>Now we have a “to do” sheet for the next time it could happen. We will get everything setup and then use the last hot water in the tank for a shower, it might be a while until the next one.</p><p></p><p>Welcome to the country, and the critters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="p238shooter, post: 2683775, member: 24583"] Congratulations on your new home, I hope you enjoy living in the country close to the lake as much as we do. I have a total electric house out in the country also, that was the only thing we did not like about it along with the expensive crappy internet service. You will need to think about a power failure. My area had no power for 7 days a few years back during an ice storm. We were able to manage with a 6500 watt portable generator and four of the little heat strip box fan heaters and the fireplace. We ran the frig and freezers a couple hours each day, and had coffee, an electric skillet, and a microwave when we needed it. I had several gas cans I use for the mowers and the boat filled just in case, but had to make a fuel run after a few days. Our water plant was down 4 days, used the generator exhaust to melt 5 gal buckets of ice to pour in the toilets to flush. Cell phone tower ran out of diesel and went down after 4 days, used my ham radio running off the boat battery for communications to some friends who could make an emergency call if needed. For practice, you might want to turn off your heat system and see how well your fireplace does for a day or two and think about things like enough extra heavy duty extension cords, working around your electric garage door opener, figuring out how to disable the dammed beep from the alarm system battery going down, extra flashlight batteries etc. Just after that outage I purchased a Grate-wall-of-Fire for our fireplace and it made a huge difference in the heat it put into the room rather than up the pipe, wish we had it earlier. Now we have a “to do” sheet for the next time it could happen. We will get everything setup and then use the last hot water in the tank for a shower, it might be a while until the next one. Welcome to the country, and the critters. [/QUOTE]
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