I love electricity. Seriously. I love it so much, I want to marry it.

[Patiod]

Heat! Computers! TV! Heat!

Did I say heat?

Only 48 hours w/o electricity, and we were shivering messes, huddled in bed with about 10 blankets after picking up tree limbs and sticks all day. Haven't read a book under the covers for over 40 years, but did so last night, because it was so damned cold.

We are calling a chimney service this week - we need to be able to have an indoor fire!

[Incitatus]

1. yes, electricity is awesome, just don't love it so much you try to get intimate with an outlet. nt

[Suich]

2. Glad you got power back, Patiod!

It's nice, isn't it?

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. In the 90's, I lived in a "Three's Company"-like platonic situation with...

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... two female supervisors from work. We were all friends and it was an exceptional
arrangement. We lived in a 3-story, 3 bedroom condo -- the top floor hadd three
bedrooms and two full bathrooms, ground floor kitchen, living room and washroom,
and the "first" floor was a huge finished basement with sliding glass doors leading
out to the backyard.
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And a fireplace.
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One COLD winter night (this was near Philly), our power went out and we ended up
making three pallets downstairs in front of the fireplace.
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It was so NICE and cozy and comfortable and "sociable" that we spent most of the
rest of the winter on three makeshift beds in front of that fireplace -- with the heat
cranked WAY down.
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If Tucson has an "out-of-monsoon season" minus, it's that there's little reason to
use a fireplace in the winter.
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[Major Nikon]

6. When I was in the USAF we used to go live out in tents

They were GP medium tents which had provisions for a stove at each end. It got really cold one night and someone got the bright idea to start burning wooden tent stakes in one of the stoves. The stove got so gotdam hot it turned cherry red and 2 of the stove pipe sections turned cherry red also. It got so hot in the tent we had to turn the other stove off and everyone slept on top of their sleeping bag that night.

[OriginalGeek]

4. This OP is just shocking!

Shocking, I say!

[femmocrat]

5. I know what you mean.... we've been there.

The last time our power was out for 2 days (the Halloween snow storm last year), I got so fed up that we bought a generator.

We do have a propane fireplace which we have used to heat water, soup, etc. It just gets so cold in the house .... I can't stand it.

I was very, very grateful that our power stayed on through this storm. I felt like calling our power co. and thanking them! (But then I considered how ineffective they usually are and decided against it.)