Hi Kim
You were absolutely right!!
That's even cooler than the emoticons
but they were still pretty cool.
Pellet stoves, require, electrical to run the air fan.....which is a MUST for a pellet stove...
my neighbour got one too, and they had to get a generator to keep the fan going when the power went out...
they had a wood stove and thought they were getting rid of the mess of wood....now she has to lug bags of pellets....
but it was the electrical part that they never thought of... so something to consider, they just got a small generator, (a 500),,and you can get them pretty cheap, she runs the pellet stove fan and a small TV off of it..
this was the second time so far this year, both times trees downed the lines right onto the road..and not even anywheres near us either.....we had a big snow storm last Nov also, and was out for 3-4 days...then I think we were out a couple of more times before spring, but I can't remember when...
I think it was the big ice storm of 95/96 (the one that Montreal got hit so bad), but so did we. we got 5 feet dumped on us in one night,,,and we were out of power for 5-6 days, I think it was 4 days before the plows got out here to clear the roads. Everybody was stuck...Lots of marinas took heavy damage and wiped out a few...
I have a picture of Allan and he stepped out off a bank and disappeared, all you can see is his face and hat....
the trouble where we live, is it's on a dead end road, off a dead end road,
so when they restore the power of the secondary main road (two more dead ones to get to us), they often neglect to flip the switch to go out the two dead end roads....and often with us, it's because trees have fallen down over the lines....
but I still think it's ridiculous,,,to have as many power outages as we do, and to be left so long without, it's not like we live back east, with the BAD weather,,,,,all the time, once it hits....at least we get breaks.....like now.
winter, I always stock up on canned goods, gas for the genny, cuz I don't drive in it anymore,,,, we're 600 ft above sea level, so it's colder, and stays colder longer, and the road winds around some pretty wicked corners......even the macho guys in their huge 4x4 trucks hit the ditch...
so my dear, hope this epistle answered your short question...
love pp