I can remember my first Turkey Day Dog House night, when I alluded to my spouses first Thanksgiving Turkey as “Turkey Jerky”.
Mr. mm and I went to visit my son and daughter-in-law, who live in NH, for Thanksgiving.
We left as early as possible Wed morning. Hit dry roads all through NYS. Crossed the state line into VT and someone flipped a switch.
It was HORRIBLE driving. We saw 19 separate incidences of vehicles off the road *( about one every 15 minutes) most of them single cars, but some multiple accident scenes.
As we drove by in my four wheel drive with killer snow tires (Hankook iPikes - BEST SNOW TIRES EVER), mr mm looked at the tires of the vehicles off the road and every single one had all season radials.
Just before reaching my son’s, he called to tell us the power was out. So we picked up some water and LED lanterns, and drove the rest of the ten minutes to his house.
We were toasty warm as he heats by wood/coal stove and cooked our meals and heated our water on it.
We were without power the entire weekend, 3+ days. He just called to report that it finally came back on.
We, and he, certainly learned what he needed to do to live off the grid in the winter. We are looking at options for power and water from his well.
It was an interesting experience to be sure.