Gary Reeder
We have 3 wood stoves in our house. Two are
Tuesday, January 16, 2024, 12:23

for heating and the third is a wood cook stove that is great at cooking plus heats the rear of our house.

There is a company in Knoxville Tennessee that has been making them for 250 years or more. After our first winter of heavy snow and loss of electricity a few times I decided to do something to solve that problem and ordered the stove.
We go thru around 3 cords of wood a year although I think this year we will hit 4 due to the extreme cold.
We are on a well that hasn't given us any problems so far other than putting a new pump in several years ago. All in all we are getting by which a lot of folks are having trouble doing. The families back east, in the north east and the north west are really having a hard time. In some areas 100 inches of snow is not unusual. There have been several times were we had well over 100 inches of snow.
One side of our house is nearly covered in 2023.

The same house 3 hours later

Another corner of the house, almost 8 feet of snow on the ground and 4 feet on top of the house.

a couple of years ago, almost 8 feet of snow on the back deck.

Looking out the window on the back of the house, almost 7 feet of snow. A few years ago.

We had to dig a way out to let the dogs get out.

These pics are to help the folks that find themselves under a lot of snow. You'll make it. It all eventually goes away.