Are you in an Apartment, Condo, or single family residence?
This will impact your decision on options.
As we own our home, and experience many electrical outages, we built our home so that we have two fireplaces. One in the living room, and one in the kitchen/dining are.
We also at one time used a wood stove in the basement, and were nice and toasty even without the furnace. We also have a generator, electric heaters, and sterno stoves for quick cup of coffee.
Now for some brainstorming on your question - these are just possibilities to think about and maybe explore further.
Consider that you may want to plan on only heating one room. If the Master bedroom has it’s own bath, That might be your choice. You can use a kerosene or propane camping stove with proper ventilation to heat just this small area(less fuel needed).
Make sure you have some good sleeping bags (we have some down filled ones), and hats, gloves, and layers of clothes and jackets.
For very long term, some choices are solar, wind, or make your own fuel using corn. I’ve read that you can get a converter for a generator so that you can burn ethanol, which you can make if you have the materials and space to raise the corn/crop.
These are not options that I have researched, since we have a good source of wood on our own properties. Good Luck.
Great post, thank you for taking the time. I now realize that I am missing sleeping bags! I will definitely add them to my list.
I live in a single family bungalo style home, that sits on a 40’x140’ lot. Since it is just Buford the Coon Hound and me, I have plenty of space for stuff. The issue comes to the actual storing of fuels...