1) Make sure you've made nice with the neighbor who has a whole house natural gas generator. It will come in hand in keeping all the food in your deep freeze frozen! (Thank God I did not need to throw all of that away I may have cried!)
2) On that same subject after 2 days is it really worth keeping the fridge door closed and hope it stays cold even with ice? I'm still contemplating this one so I guess nothing learned.
3) Make sure you have a non-chewing, peeing on the floor, biting puppy. You may need to go to really nice friend's houses and it's important that puppy can come too but if he's mean I bet you don't get many nice friend requests.
4) Totally rock the wrinkled, yeah I only sorta match look. Hey no power - no washer or dryer or iron - therefore no clean or ironed clothes!
5)Try to put off moving into a new house when the new house doesn't have power. Or at least move in before 7:30 that night. (Yep our new neighbors did this and they were running around trying to get things into the house and ended up staying in a hotel that night because they couldn't find anything in the dark)
6) Somewhere has power. Utilize it to charge phones even if it's your car. People want to check on you and make sure you are ok! Don't make them worry.
7) Suck it up and move on. People lived without power for a really long time! I thank God that I at least have power most of the time and can have frozen and cold food, fans, air conditioners, a washer, dryer, computer, etc. It's hard for us but the break from being able to use the computer or wash clothes or vacuum the floor gave me an opportunity to sit out on my front porch, see some of our neighbors, read a book and work on the blanket I've been attempting to crochet for like 6 years!
