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@hoosieroriginal wrote:

My house is all electric, but almost all of my neighbors have propane.  My best friend (neighbor) has spent $2,000 - 5,000 a winter for propane to heat their home.  I have to say, my most expensive electric bill in the winter was $300.  Of course, I keep my house very cool in the winter and bundle up.  Most of the time I turn heat off at night and have a little heater with a thermostat in the bedroom.  My bedroom is small and it takes no time at all to heat up.  If it is going to be particularly cold at night I leave heat on for the pipes.  But most of the time I just leave water dripping to keep the pipes from freezing overnight.  I just don't know how people afford these propane costs.  I have to admit, I'm a cheapskate and very glad I have an all electric home. 

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[beckyb1012]

The home my ex-husband and I had out in the country was all electric except for propane to the cook stove, the furnace and the hot water heater.  I loved it especially when the electricity went out in the winter.  We could still light the burners (by matches) on the stove for some cooking and hot chocolate and take hot showers.  Not much fun when you stepped out of the shower into a very cold bathroom.  The furnace still had to have the electric to ignite the propane so we did not have the use of that but had a large fireplace for our family pajama party.  Lots of them during the 18 years there.

[SilleeMee]

I get really nervous when my electricity goes out which does not happen very often and when it does it's usually for no longer than one hour. But it means nothing in my house will work. No heat, no cooking, no cooling...nada! Sure would be nice to have a propane generator as a back-up. Maybe someday.

[RedTop]

My home is all electric, but we have a wood stove in the basement for supplemental heat, and a generator powered by propane.  

When we filled our propane tank originally, the cost was under $400.   Our propane usage is mainly from the weekly test run; the generator has only come on twice because of a brief outage, no major usage as yet.   Our propane company will not deliver to us until our tank registers at half full, which is NEVER when propane is at its best price!   

[151949]

I am accustomed to cooking with electric and I prefer it. I have to cook with gas at camp and I burn things a lot. 

[beckyb1012]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

I get really nervous when my electricity goes out which does not happen very often and when it does it's usually for no longer than one hour. But it means nothing in my house will work. No heat, no cooking, no cooling...nada! Sure would be nice to have a propane generator as a back-up. Maybe someday.

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The longest we ever went without electric here in Texas during an ice storm was three days.  I was keeping my fridge items on my deck buried in the snow and ice.  By the third day I told my family if I could not run my vacuum cleaner by the next day we were getting on our hands and knees to start the living room floor clean up.  It came back on a few hours later to all our relief.

[SilleeMee]

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@beckyb1012 wrote:

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@SilleeMee wrote:

I get really nervous when my electricity goes out which does not happen very often and when it does it's usually for no longer than one hour. But it means nothing in my house will work. No heat, no cooking, no cooling...nada! Sure would be nice to have a propane generator as a back-up. Maybe someday.

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The longest we ever went without electric here in Texas during an ice storm was three days.  I was keeping my fridge items on my deck buried in the snow and ice.  By the third day I told my family if I could not run my vacuum cleaner by the next day we were getting on our hands and knees to start the living room floor clean up.  It came back on a few hours later to all our relief.

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@beckyb1012,

omg three days??!! I would be a wreck. If that ever happened here then I would definitely buy back-up generator. How do you do it? 

[beckyb1012]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

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@beckyb1012 wrote:

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@SilleeMee wrote:

I get really nervous when my electricity goes out which does not happen very often and when it does it's usually for no longer than one hour. But it means nothing in my house will work. No heat, no cooking, no cooling...nada! Sure would be nice to have a propane generator as a back-up. Maybe someday.

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The longest we ever went without electric here in Texas during an ice storm was three days.  I was keeping my fridge items on my deck buried in the snow and ice.  By the third day I told my family if I could not run my vacuum cleaner by the next day we were getting on our hands and knees to start the living room floor clean up.  It came back on a few hours later to all our relief.

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@beckyb1012,

omg three days??!! I would be a wreck. If that ever happened here then I would definitely buy back-up generator. How do you do it? 

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Divorce.  No that time was hard because a few hours after it came back on we lost the water for six hours then the electricity went back off a couple of hours more until the whole ice storm was behind us.  I truly wanted to hurt someone that day.  We usually lost power for a 24 hour period several times each winter since it was out in the country and we were not high priority.  But no traffic no neighbors so you take the good with the bad.

[SilleeMee]

@beckyb1012,

Well you are more brave than me for sure! Yes, country-living has it's perks but at a cost for some. Hope you don't have to go through the ice storms too often. Sounds really scary.

[beckyb1012]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

@beckyb1012,

Well you are more brave than me for sure! Yes, country-living has it's perks but at a cost for some. Hope you don't have to go through the ice storms too often. Sounds really scary.

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@SilleeMee Oh no, not much anymore.  That is what I mean't by Divorce.  Moved to the city life when I told hubby goodbye.  18 years married and Dec. 10th will be 18 years divorced. Love it, Love it, Love it.