Having a temporary wood stove on hand?

I grew up in a home with 2 wood stoves and have seen how useful they can be when it is Jan. in Michigan and the power goes out. In the 1980s, the Great Lakes area had a horrible ice storm and we were without power for weeks. All of our heating, cooking, and bathing happened at those stoves.

Fast forward to 2014 and my wife, me, and our infant son bought a house that has no supplemental heat source, and this vulnerability has been weighing on my mind heavily. As I type, it is -5 degrees outside and if we lost power or lost the furnace, life would become uncomfortable pretty quick.

In the event of just losing the furnace, we have electric space heaters and I may add one of those oil filled radiant types to mix. But in a worst case scenario, where the majority of southern MI is out of power (so there is no going to a neighbor's or a friend's house), I'm researching ideas that are feasible on a limited budget. We have natural gas so some type of vented natural gas stove would be great but we are talking thousands of dollars and we have some space constraints.

One idea I came across was temporarily installing a small woodstove in a room. I got the idea from these 2 links:

http://ift.tt/2D2hgxK

http://ift.tt/2D4wDFK

In summary, they describe opening a window or removing a window pane and inserting a piece of plywood that was previously set up to allow a stove pipe to pass through. Add the stove, some elbows, and sections of stove pipe and you're in business. Has anyone done this? Finding a smaller wood stove would be easy in my area and I have plenty of mature buckthorn on my property that I'm eager to cut and burn.

I thought about kerosene heaters for a hot second but my experience is that they soot and can put fumes into the house. My wife has asthma so I think that idea is a non-starter.

Thanks!

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Having a temporary wood stove on hand?