So, 96 hours later, I got my power back....

[OAITW r.2.0]

Yippee! Man, what a time.

And I got hit with 20" on snow to wake up to on Sunday morning....

Luckily, I made an Onion soup Saturday afternoon and was able to heat on the woodstove. Lighting by candles and kerosene lamps. Will be buying a cook stove and lanterns that use white gas the first chance I get.

Luckily, I had my smart phone and Youtube TV, so I was able to read DU, watch MSNBC, and a few movies.

It's good to be re-connected. I'm getting solar panels and battery back-up in February...this should help mitigate these outages in the future.

[Politicalgolfer]

1. Sooo, I assume you're a fellow Mainer???

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Indeed, I am!

Central Maine. My back is killing me from shovel 2+ feet of snow off my back deck. But life is good now!

[Siwsan]

3. I went just slightly longer after the 2013 Christmas Week ice storm in Michigan

It went out at about 11 on a Sunday morning and came back on right around 3 on Friday afternoon. I had lots of candles, a propane lantern and a fireplace for warmth. Spent 3 days lugging buckets of water out the sump hole, up the stairs, and either out the door or into the bath and utility tub, about once every 90 minutes, around the clock.

Finally borrowed an old generator and the guys put it in what should have been a very safe place - on the open screened in porch, at the doorway (tried to make it harder for people to steal.) It was the perfect set up until the wind shifted and picked up and CO started seeping in through the not so well insulated part of the house. Fortunately we realized what was happening, just in the nick of time. Much longer and I'd have been a goner. I thought I was getting dizzy from the gas fumes. Truth be, I was so exhausted, that made perfect sense to me, at the time. The only after effect was my taste buds were totally screwed up for about 3 months.

I had a NEW generator installed and located in an outside storage area and wired into the house. And I haven't had to use it in 7 years, which is FINE by me.

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4. Back about 25 years ago, I did something similar. Put a generator in the area where the

bulkhead doors were located. Big mistake. As soon as I started the generator, exhaust filled the basement and into the house.

[Siwsan]

5. Scary stuff, isn't it.

I'll tell you this - never in my life has a hot and very soapy shower ever felt so wonderful.

And I had to laugh when my nephew came by to help me, for a while. He took over the bucket brigade and after a few trips up and down those stairs he asked me how long I had been dealing with the task. I told him 2 full days, around the clock. Suffice it to say he was VERY impressed with the strength and stamina of his old auntie.