I was wondering about that. Our gas rang you can light the burners manually, but I thought maybe yours had some extra “safety” feature that made them unusable.

We mow have gas fireplaces in both basements that will keep those rooms warm, but without electricity to run fans the heat will stay down there. And as mentioned the wood burning fireplaces only work so long as you have wood to burn.

I figure I need a generator able to run 2 furnaces, one fridge, a microwave and one computer … so not that big. Still a thousand bucks or so … given a choice of a vacation of back up power in true short sighted human fashion I take vacation 😉