Where you live, a gas fireplace would be fine for warming up a room. Where I live, it is inadequate to keep the pipes from freezing, it is only a fireplace for the temporary comfort of humans and especially cats.Originally Posted by bae
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Well, generally winter temperatures here are moderate, often not even below freezing.
But, we can get serious storms that take out power lines, sometimes for a week or more. And the temperature can remain in the single-digits for many days. You have to be clever in those times, taking care to preserve your plumbing, and living around your heat source. (I went into a neighbor's home to check on them in the last such storm, and found the two little old ladies there had isolated the room in the home containing their woodstove to keep a small survivable warm space.)
When my own wood stove perished a few years back, I put in a giant over-sized one capable of heating a large Montana hunting lodge. I have not regretted this decision. I have two wood stoves in the house, one on the "daylight basement" floor, and the huge one on the main floor. Sometimes I have had to have both of them running before I oversized the main unit, since then I only run the second stove now-and-then to make sure everything is functional.
In my Dad's place, I replaced the old wood stove with a propane "wood stove", which generates enough heat for these circumstances, and installed a wall-mount propane heater in the kitchen part of his home.
In my Mother's place, I put a propane fireplace insert into her existing lovely-but-not-especially-heat-produce existing fireplace, and it cranks out enough heat to keep the place warm even when the outside temperature is in the single-digits and the wind is howling in from the Arctic.
From this thread I’ve learned there’s at least four feeding programs sponsored by US taxpayers at the federal level, There may be more for all I know:
1. school feeding orogram
2. WIC. Women, Infants, and .children
3. SNAP supplemental Nutirtional Assistance Program
4. TEFAP. Temporary emergency food assistance program
Also the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) for seniors, and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) for childcare centers.
And the Farm Bill :-)
Just had an email with a friend at church about the local food pantry. She is older and is pretty well off. $10K to food pantry! I was thrilled to see that.
Six “feed the people programs “are not enough. We need more.
/s
I’m playing around with looking into senior citizen housing supplemented by the government just for my own edification. I learned that a housing complex across the street from one of our former little houses is a subsidized senior citizen complex. I always looked at that and thought it was very cool and I figured I would like to live there. It’s called Saint Agnes Apartments and I just figured it was run by Catholic charities. Well, maybe it is but I didn’t know it was subsidized housing.
It is nice because it’s in the center of a neighborhood I like, an old Victorian neighborhood, and they have a nice yard and have a flower garden edging the yard that the residents take care of and there are plants in pots, too. It’s adjacent to a small city park and a dog park. The front part of the building is an old restored school house so it’s got that “old building “element that I like, but the apartments are in a recently constructed building attached.
it appears to be 100% subsidize housing and that surprises me. Again, it’s one of the few senior citizen places and I could envision myself.
according to ChatGPT the “senior only “ subsidized housing in the city of St. Louis does not have a long waiting list. I wonder if that’s accurate, but that’s encouraging if true.
I know the /s means sarcasm, and so you might want to check out this article about the status of hunger in America:
America’s Hunger Crisis Is Growing
Wow, the article is powerful, but this is that part that makes me cry, maybe because I'm a market researcher:
Last month, the Trump Administration canceled the USDA’s annual Household Food Security Report—the only national data source that measures hunger by age, disability status, and household composition. For the first time in 30 years, America will no longer track hunger nationwide. Without that data, millions of older adults like Rubem will vanish from view as the social safety net continues to collapse around them.
What is Trump trying to accomplish by banning these statistics? He is so narcissistic he would prevent information that can help us identify problems and come up with solutions rather than burst his bubble that under his Administration we are happy subjects all living an American Utopia under his reign.
I don't know what he thinks will solve a hunger problem in this country--especially since he's about to make it bigger.
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As I’ve already posted earlier, many MAGA supporters lack empathy. They think if you need this sort of assistance, it’s your fault. Probably from the influence of the fake prosperity gospel stuff. They don’t care if it’s a senior or not. You should have saved enough for retirement. If you didn’t, it’s your fault. Just about 40% of SNAP recipients are kids, I just heard on the radio. The MAGA supporters are “too bad, so bad” the kids have parents who can’t feed them properly. Or don’t make enough. Something like 38% of SNAP recipients work. But we all know that a lot of working class folks are in a bad way. MAGA simply doesn’t care.
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