Tony
At least you had a stove to heat food.
We haven't had a bad winter over here in the UK since the 70's, but as the
winter starts I always put aside a weeks worth of dried foods (don't go bad in
a power cut) Rice, Porridge oats, Pasta, Polenta flour, Dried milk, Dried fruit
and some cans of beans, soup etc. To make it a little more palatable jars of
honey, maple syrup and jam. Bottled water is always a good idea as is a gas
stove to cook. I like my comfort and have no wish to suffer a survival
situation when i can with a little forward planning merely have a few days
inconvenience.
Our cars and work van always have 24 hours food and water, blanket and a
waterproof poncho. In UK you are seldom able to get an hours walk from a
village or town but like I said I like comfort.....
iain
As most of you know we had a bad ice storm here in Arkansas.
We were lucky to only be out of power for just four days. By that I mean we
were not to get power for another week or so but a bit of luck came out way.
There was not a room to be found in our whole area for the out of state crews
that came in to work. The resort down the road offered to put up as many as
they could if they had power. They got power to them and we are on the same
line so we got power too after four days. We are total electric so we had no
heat, water,or lights. The garage door was frozen shut so we could not get the
van out. We live on a one lane road that is not plowed so even if we could get
the van out we would not be able to get to town. All power in town was out too.
Those that have been here know about the hill. The one mile steep hill was
totally iced over and blocked by
fallen trees and big limbs. It took a crew of locals and farm hands 12 hours
to get it open but there was still the ice problem as far as getting to town.
Temps went down to 18*F two nights, we had 10 candles and an oil lamp burning
in the living room for heat.Spent the four days in winter outside clothes, even
slept in them.No comment on the toilet. Luckily we had a one burner Colman
camping stove and bottled water to make hot chocolate and warm cans of soup. We
managed but I hope we will not have to do that again. We finally got out
yesterday and could not believe the damage done
It looks like a war zone and like about 20 tornadoes went through. Roads
blocked with trees down, loads of branches down every where. Broken power poles
and wires down. No stop lights working. Walmart was working on half power but
most of the shelves for candles, oil lamps, bread, milk camping stoves,
blankets and a lot of other stuff was clean.It may be two weeks or
more before all power is restored
We lost all the food in the freezer and refrigerator
Arkansas Tony
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