Sorry for the late reply Chuck, Saturday was our day for power fizzle. It went off at 04:30 and came back on at 21:30 that night. Yes the temp was getting low. I was shopping for a better heat source than my fireplace and found a thingy called DynaGlow at Walley World for about 80 bucks. It was great. It takes those small green propane (?) bottles and puts out great heat. I put one in the far reaches of the house and it would cook you out of the room. I'm going to get me several for the next Pacificorp unscheduled emergency drill. We have at least one every other month here. Oh and I did drag out my 240 lbs of AGM solar batteries and hooked up a few DC lights and a laptop to play DVD's for the grandkids. It's an adventure for the first six hours, after that it gets to be a pain and downright scary in the winter. Hope your doing OK now... B) Tnx es 73 de n7zi Gary "Why buy something for ten bucks when you can make it for a hundred.", J.R. -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+n7zi=comcast.net@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+n7zi=comcast.net@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 4:35 PM To: Utah-Astro Subject: [Utah-astronomy] amateur astronomy, zen, & power outages If anybody is checking their email on a cell phone or laptop, huddled in the cold & dark, just say the word and we'll get you some relief somehow. We lost power Friday morning at 9, didn't get it back until Saturday night at 7, 34 hours. House internal temp was about 48 degrees by then. Isn't it amazing how your spirits can soar just from the sight of a lightbulb lighting up? BTW, truss poles don't burn, and the shroud makes a lot of stinky smoke...same with laminated atlases. Only use the plain paper ones. ;) C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com