They're not flickering anymore anyway. Thinking we'll be alright. Plus, there are streaming services for iPhone now, I think. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Fortunately, we had wood and a wood stove in the LR that would heat that room significantly and it has a relatively flat lip on the top on which we could heat water, make soup from a can, fry an egg, etc. I learned to crush coffee beans with the flat of the blade of my chef's knife, etc. Hope that the power outages don't become too widespread where you are. The bigger the outage, the longer to restoration.
This winter has been a worse here than last year, with snow on the ground for almost total of a month now, but fortunately we have not had an ice storm or a power outage. I have been thinking about you and Cat the last day or so as this has developed. Be well. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
You might get blown away in PR, but you are not likely to freeze.
ABSOLUTELY!! In the north, I would be a lost puppy! "Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne