Poor baby, try going 2 weeks after a major hurricane.
I lived without electricity for 8 years. No that’s not a typo, 8 years. Intentionally.
Lived out in the boonies in central Texas, we found out it would cost us several th9ousand dollars to have poles pu tin to run power to the house, at $450 each. So we found a propane fridge, told the power co to take a hike, and lived without them.
My mother had a battery operated TV she’d use a little during the day, we had a couple of battery powered radios, both worked in town. Built an outdoor grille for cooking using fire bricks inside regular brick housing, plenty wood everywhere, including a couple of Hickory trees. I’d pick up any branches that fell from the Hickory and reserved those for the cook fire.
Got a 55 gallon plastic barrel and mounted it outside the kitchen window, installed a pipe and faucet, brought water from town in 5 gallon jugs every day. (with boss’ permission)
Put a shower head in the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket, heated water on the wood stove or outside, two people can take a shower with a 5 gallon bucket of water. Big garden, 200 chickens, at least a half dozen goats at any time, blackberries, dewberries, huckleberries, muscadines, a friend had about 30 peach trees, we grew strawberries, and asparagus, other garden type stuff.
In winter I could hunt some, but fire ants were taking a toll on most of the game so it was scarce. The local cattle ranchers (lots of those) had to watch close at birthing time, get the calves up off the ground, fire and would get into their mouth and nose and kill them an about 30 minutes. Fire ants would get anything born or hatched on the ground, quail were common when we moved there, almost none to be found 5 years later, I couldn’t hunt quail any more (not by law, it was still legal, I didn’t want to wipe out the few remaining.) Fire ants would attack anything too young to get away soon as it was born. That meant no rabbits, deer or quail, and cattle were hit hard.
No phone either, when relatives wanted to come up for the weekend, they just showed up.
Here I have a shallow water well, all I have to do is drop a 5 gallon bucket in and I still have water. Plenty game, ducks on a lake 100 yards away, been keeping a garden for years, most of the neighbors are good folks so I don’t expect a lot of trouble till a couple of months along. Food in freezer will be gone in a week, but I can still get what I need, I’m a good shot. Do need to stock up on .22 ammo and seeds though...just started practicing with my bow a little too. Oh, also need to get some fishing line, have everything else already, Ambassaduer reels never go bad.