Back on topic though, got home from vacation in CA Saturday night, -13F, the inside of the house was a balmy 0 degrees. Battery bank was down enough that the PH was down to where the water was frozen. Oddly they still had a charge of like 11.2V. Not enough for the inverter and the generator was frozen in a block of ice so out came the lanterns.
We got the house from 0 to about 47 by bed time. Then I got up every 2 hours and fed the fire and achieved 67 by about 5:00AM. Sunday night it got down to -29F. That is not fun at all but we had a warm house then so all was well. Hauled water with Caleb's pickup and quickly pumped it into the barrels in the house.
About 16" of fluffy powder snow since we left.
Traveling from south to north on I-15 made me realize we live in Siberia
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