"jmcquown" > wrote:

>
>Perhaps. I do know I had a week-long power outage after a bad storm; I was
>able to bake on my Weber kettle. I used my cast iron griddle to make bacon;
>drained the bacon drippings for a skillet of cornbread. Used the drained
>griddle to make some eggs and griddle cakes to go with the bacon for
>breakfast. (I was using up things that were going to spoil, you see.) I
>even prepared a big skillet of jambalaya (enameled cast iron with a lid) and
>a pot of soup in the iron dutch oven (no tomatoes). All the stores within a
>25+ mile radius had a "run" on propane/LP gas tanks and I already had a
>supply of lump charcoal

So? If we have a power outage I have two tanks filled and ready to
go. I bet the stores had a run on candles, charcoal, etc... etc... as
well. They had a run on gas because people were unprepared - which
can happen with with charcoal as well.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL