What do you do when the power goes out?
This past weekend, the power went out at our house, and at about 5000 other peoples too. It stayed off for roughly 41 hours or about 2 days. The initial cause of our power outage, a big arctic storm moved into our area. The final cause of our power outage, downed power lines resulting from iced trees falling on them.
So, what happens when the power goes out in an all electric house?
Your curl up in blankets and with buddies:
You can guard your house against all the ice cracking noises:
You put the broken fireplace panels in your fireplace anyway to cover the hole back there and build a fire (just wait for the house update on the living room to hear about the fireplace panels); After you haul in the wood and let it dry because you didn't expect to have to burn a fire until the fireplace was fixed.
You can wrap up in jackets, whether they are yours or not, anything you find that fits is fair game when the power is out:
You can finish your non-computer school work for the week (I didn't realize before that we only have 3 subjects that require the computer on an on-going basis - math, typing, and Latin) For history, we studied Constantine and the activity was to create a shield
You can light candles for light and use a camping stove to cook on
And you can make fondant cows for a birthday cake.
The hardest part for us was the lack of water. The pump for the well is electric. I did stock up on water and we determined that it takes 2 gallons to flush our toilet. Since the roads cleared, we have refilled all our water bottles and researched generators for keeping the pump going.
This past weekend, the power went out at our house, and at about 5000 other peoples too. It stayed off for roughly 41 hours or about 2 days. The initial cause of our power outage, a big arctic storm moved into our area. The final cause of our power outage, downed power lines resulting from iced trees falling on them.
So, what happens when the power goes out in an all electric house?
Your curl up in blankets and with buddies:
You can guard your house against all the ice cracking noises:
You put the broken fireplace panels in your fireplace anyway to cover the hole back there and build a fire (just wait for the house update on the living room to hear about the fireplace panels); After you haul in the wood and let it dry because you didn't expect to have to burn a fire until the fireplace was fixed.
You can wrap up in jackets, whether they are yours or not, anything you find that fits is fair game when the power is out:
You can finish your non-computer school work for the week (I didn't realize before that we only have 3 subjects that require the computer on an on-going basis - math, typing, and Latin) For history, we studied Constantine and the activity was to create a shield
You can light candles for light and use a camping stove to cook on
And you can make fondant cows for a birthday cake.
The hardest part for us was the lack of water. The pump for the well is electric. I did stock up on water and we determined that it takes 2 gallons to flush our toilet. Since the roads cleared, we have refilled all our water bottles and researched generators for keeping the pump going.
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