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Fortunately they had a wood stove for heat and they could cook on it, and they may have used the propane stove in the RV as well.
What's ridiculous is that they lived only about a mile out of town, while I lived way the hell out in the sticks at the time and was only out of power one night in the same storm.
They also lived about a mile away from the hospital (by actual distance) which naturally was one of the first priorities for the power company. But unfortunately, there's not any roads going directly from their neighborhood to the hospital, hence they were on a completely different power grid. And their power grid just happened to pass through an area where many trees, BIG trees went down. It took them that long just to be able to get the area cleaned up enough to reconnect the power lines.
Smart thing would have been to bury them THEN, especially since they wouldn't have been digging up anybody's front lawn in order to route the wires, at least for that stretch of road.
It's long overdue. Every part of the country is either subject to some form of extreme weather and/or earthquakes now and then. And the occasional idiot who runs his or her car into a pole and knocks it down. Though the squirrels in the neighborhood might be saddened to lose their own personal highway system and the crows would have to find a new place to sit and squawk at me, but they'll adapt, I guess.
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