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The news is saying that 1.5 million here in the pacific northwest are without power. Ours has been down for 20 hours and the utility says that 99% of their customers are out since the main BPA lines feeding the system are down. It might be a few days. Dress warm fellow PNW people, the cold and snow are coming this weekend. Winter weather, ya gotta love it.
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Thanks for the offer! Some pack mule meat might be mighty tasty  Just kidding. We're doing fine. Generator is running, lots of dry firewood, and the pantry and propane tank are full. The pioneers would be jealous. I'm a little worried about the neighbors though. They're the type who seem to live one day at a time without planning ahead. I'll wander over later and see how they're doing.
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I'm not sure where this storm came from. If it's not on the Weather Channel dot com 10 day forecast page I won't see it.
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100 mph winds were reported off the Oregon coast too. Wasn't there a treaty signed that was supposed to keep Canadian weather in Canada?
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It's the third day without power and the utility still has no ETA for repair. The phone lines went down Friday for no particular reason it seems (want's windy, wasn't raining) and they also have no ETA for repair. Temperatures have been in the mid-20s and the house is pretty chilly in the mid 50s. One fireplace doesn't do a great job heating a big house. Next year we'll buy a second LP generator just to run the heat pump. Generators are sure cheaper now than they were when we bought ours during Y2K. Anyway, just whining some.
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No wood stove. We have two fireplaces but one is in the unfinished basement. They're fairly efficient units with outside combustion air and a blower but still not enough for the entire house. We didn't get around to installing radiant floor heat this year but definitely will do that next year. That will add gas-fired heat on the main floor but won't be adequate for the upstairs bedrooms.
A few years ago we were out of town for Christmas and the power here went out for a week while we were gone. My cousin was keeping an eye on the house so it wasn't a problem, just a pain.
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Yay! Power came back on a little while ago and the heat pump is doing it's best imitation of pumping out some heat. Went through ~250 gallons of propane in 3 1/2 days. Expensive outage! I'm just grateful that the power is back before Christmas (knock on wood).
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Capturing the heat is a good idea but might be sort of difficult. The generator is in a shed about 100 feet from the house. It's an open frame generator with the exhaust piped to the outdoors. But the heat isn't totally wasted. We keep firewood in that shed and the shed gets to be about 80 degrees with the genset running which helps dry out wet wood
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12-15-2006, 15:20 
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