Hot flashes come at will. Sometimes they show up and sometimes they don’t. As a person stuck in bed about 80% of the time, who sometimes faints when I stand and sometimes doesn’t… I can tell you that sometimes you just take your chances to have a semblance of a life.
My husband finally got tired of going out to deal with the gas generator so we got a propane one. Then that became an issue with hauling the tanks to be filled. I finally got the standby generator I wanted, as I’m disabled and he’d have to stay home if there was a whiff of a storm. I admit I envy Arlo and Janis’ fireplace. No room for one here. Somehow sitting by the mini-splits doesn’t have the same romance…
When my kid were little we lived in apartments with electric ranges. During winter storms we’d heat up canned food and drinks in our fondue pot which worked with sterno.
Not to be a buzzkill but… that eventually makes the air unbreathable. It’s why they now prohibit gas fireplaces and heating stoves that do not vent in many states where they used to be in use quite a lot.
The folks in the entire neighborhood that blew up in Massachusetts might think otherwise.