Power outages are not for pussies.
Thank God for iPhone. That is all I will say. It became the only latch I had on the outside world after Saturday nights snow storm that dropped 18 inches in my yard. We lost power at 7:30pm on Saturday evening and got it back at around 8:30 last night. Nothing near the eleven electricity free days that I had been warned that the ice storm of 2008 created here in NH but still enough to make me smell like a monkey's ass and want to do sexual favors for PSNH line men. Now here is the situation. I have a well. No town water or sewer for me. We have broached this topic once before here. This means that not only do your lights go out, your heat ceases to work, and you have no water. No water for showers, or dishes, or brushing your teeth or FLUSHING YOUR TOILET. The toilet really does not concern you the first day without power but around the third day you were hard pressed to get me into that bathroom. Yeah...that bad. Now for ...