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It features a bed, a couch, throw rugs, a table and a hot plate that, like other appliances in the camp, runs off pirated electricity.

Here’s how it works: That warmer western Pacific acts like a hot plate under the atmosphere, creating rising air that sends waves rippling eastward, like dropping a stone in a pond.

One day, by the hot plates, he got down on one knee and asked her to marry him.

“They are giving us even less time than the gas company,” said Hong, who has been cooking with hot plates, an option that will end Sunday.

Luckily, Hong and his wife have a camper’s electric hot plate that they’ve been able to use in the meantime, and friends have offered up their homes for a break.