Emergency heat sources

The couple of small oscillating ceramic heaters work well for us along with a propane fireplace insert.
The insert heats everything but runs about 8- 10$ a day to run.
The ceramic heaters are very efficient. We do fine with them until single digits.
In a much smaller place now all the kids are gone. Easier to heat.
All supplemental to electric central heat which we try to avoid.
 
I may as well have cursed myself. We had a winter storm warning here in south east GA last wednesday and the power went out early in the morning until about noon. And my house got cold quick.
 
As a kid in Michigan my dad made sure we had oil lamps and kerosene heaters and fuel for both. We lived outside of town and it actually snowed then so we would lose power for a week at a time some winters. If you have a gas furnace you definitely will not have heat in a power outage as the blower and ignition system are electric as well as the regulation system that turns it on and off and changes the stages. The utility of a decent kerosene heater is second only to a real working wood stove , you can cook on top and they give off plenty of heat and a pretty pleasing glow too. Not so unpleasant memories come to mind as the high temperatures here last week stayed in the single digits with -20 wind chill overnights.
 
Wood stove exclusively for me, so I’d be fine. Would suck not having my computer though.
 
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