No idea what I’d have done today without gas stove oven and fireplace. No power for 10 hours in 18 degrees. 6 inches of icy snow all around all over the roads
No idea.
After ice storm of 1979 in LI I don’t ever have a house without a fireplace or gas oven. Unless I live on base
Even Here in Texas.
Electric everything. Nope.
My heating backup:
Propane indoor heater and three 20g tanks full.
Kerosene heater, two lamps, two 5g cans full.
Many candles, bulk wax & wicks.
You buy a backup generator.
Everyone here in NH has one.
I have a Honda 7500 watt.
I can run everything in my house except my electric oven, stove and dryer which all have 30amp breakers.
If you have propane or lucky enough to have natural gas (NG is rare here) you get a backup generator that runs off of gas.
My daughter has this system.
With their underground tank, they can run their house for 3 weeks with a full tank.
The downfall of a gasoline standby generator is that they only have a tank that will run for about a day.
So, every day you will need to run to the fuel station to refill your gas cans