I don't think most people realize just how fast you go through diesel or propane in a power outage. It goes a lot faster than you think unless you are the ruthless type that can keep honey and the kids from trying to live the life they're used to. 3-4 hours is one thing. You start talking days or weeks without power and I don't think most people have anywhere near the quantity of fuel on hand that would be needed.
I know more than one person whose back up heat was a "Mr Heater" on top of a bbq tank, the one they normally use in the ice fishing shanty. You will go through a tank a day. I didn't believe it until I tried it myself with my single burner unit. During a cold snap (that's -20 or below up here) I tried mine in our mud room. A tank a day, less than a day (24 hrs) actually. Just something to keep in mind.
I have 3 or 4 Coleman camp stove, 3 gas and one propane, plus the Coleman oven for the stove. Given the choice between trying to run a small generator to power and electric range or oven as I've seen people do, I'd take the Coleman option. A good Coleman stove, especially the big 3 burner jobs, is a darn fine tool as long as you have fuel, be it stove fuel or unleaded gas. I know Coleman wants you to use their fuel, but I've run mine on pump gas, E10 too, for years and I used to use those stoves twice a day, every cold winter day to heat water for the barn.
We still come back to water. And sewage too. Once the towns water tower is emptied and there's no power to pump water and once the sewage pumps stop, town folks are going to be in a pickle. If you have a well, you can get water with the genny. Sewage is another animal. I don't know how long it would take for a municipal sewage system to go belly up, but I bet it's not long once the pumps stop. It's one thing in 10 hours. It's a whole different ball game over a week.
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