02-05-2026, 04:21 PM
(02-03-2026, 08:15 PM)Jayaruh Wrote: Our power was out for 12 hours. It was 18 outside, and 48 inside. So glad to have it back...
Glad you got your power back.
>20 years ago we had an ice storm. Over a period of days >4" of ice covered everything. The power lines couldn't take it, and Maine is >90% forested and the trees couldn't take it. We'd go outside and it continuously sounded like glass falling and breaking. The region was devastated. We are off of a trunk line so we got power back in 5 days. We were lucky in that' some were w/o power for weeks. Back then when we had one of our many power outages (it's since changed) my plan was to revert to pre-REA days and we had kerosene lighting and heat, and the melted ice was our water source. It didn't take long for the walls to begin sweating from burning the fossil fuel. I remember when the ice storm stopped that the temp' plunged and with the wind chill it was lower than -80F outside, and that is not an exaggeration. That experience told me to get a wood stove, buy a genny, and put in solar power.
Modern homes require power to function as designed.