Our best friends are having to partially live off the grid but not by choice. The propane provider that they use cr@pped out on them and they have gone for weeks in the middle a a severe cold snap, without heat or hot water. They do still have electricity so are able to use the electric heaters we loaned them. They can’t just go stay at a motel or even at our place because they have farm animals that need care.
Whilr it sucks, they can get 100 lb cylinders of propane filled anywhere that fills grill cylinders and use those to supply gas to the house by disconnecting the big tank and connecting it to the cylinder.
I do not understand. In my part of the woods, you can easily buy several 100 lb propane tanks and hook them up to your propane connection. OK it is cold, so you drive a hundred miles and buy three 100 lb tanks. Yes, you will have to take them to Tractor supply several times a week. But how different is that from cutting wood. What am I missing?