On one occasion, we went a week without power... it was depressing! I ended up going out of town with our little one. My neighborhood was among the very last to get power restored, so frustrating to pass all these lit up areas, then home into the darkness (and cold water!). Since then we've acquired a generator, so Murphy's Law suggests we will never lose power again. True to form, power went out for a few hours recently, and my husband got concerned about the refrigerator (after about five hours) so started hooking up the generator. Sure enough, soon as he started to get it out, the power came back on!
Isn't that always the way?
When Isabel was headed in this direction we had prepared for all eventuallities, including FReeping with no power.........well we thought we had prepared for everything. The phone lines went out........so no FReeping, even though we never lost power :(