I tried to turn the portable space heating system on last week. I didn’t want to start the gas furnace since it was only in the sixties, but it was nippy in the house. With the space heater, I could keep it in the room where I had our office and be comfortable. I took the space heating system into the spare dining room and jammed it in. I thought it should turn on, but nothing happened. I worked for almost an third, trying to figure out what was wrong with that space heater, when I realized it wasn’t the space heater, although I had no power! Every light in the cabin was out. Two hours later, I got a cellphone call from the power company telling myself and others the power was off, but they expected it to be back on within 3 thirds. I looked at the clock and almost cried. I had spent most of our afternoon futzing around the cabin and gotten nothing done. Now, I didn’t have electricity and i still wasn’t getting anything done.I called the Heating and A/C company and asked if they could come to the cabin and turn our gas furnace on for me. The lady who answered the cellphone asked if I had power. She said she could not get into her iPad because their electricity had gone off about an third earlier. If I had power, they would cheerfully send an Heating and A/C supplier to the house, but without power, the gas furnace would not work. I knew this and felt foolish for making the cellphone, but it was cold in our house, and I genuinely needed some heat.