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It took me a day to get home from Winchester in that storm.
Coming up 522 they closed it, I-81 and the Turnpike were closed too.
So I slept until 5 at by the Sheetz on 37.
Got up and was told 522 had one lane open.
It was fun! Tried to get fuel on top of Town Hill, just before it was too late I saw that the truck stop was parked full from the entrance ramps onto the highway through the pumps and out to the exit ramps. Got back on 70. Going up the hill before Breezewood, traffic stopped. And I had to. 7k# in the wagon, I couldn't get going.
Almost no traffic, I decided to back down the hill until I could get going forward again.
Between spinning and melting, I was sunk into the snow enough that I couldn't even go downhill! Sat there 7 hours! On the interstate, one of 3 stuck trucks!
Penn Dot was plowing, out of Breezewood only. I watched the #%^&#!!*&&$#@##!ers
plow East, than come back plowing Westbound on the Eastbound side.
The first trucks to plow west plowed me out, then shoveled cinders under my tires.
When I got to Breezewood it was parked full. Anywhere a truck could park,on had.
Nothing could move, I guess that's why they only plowed the roads out.

24 hours after I picked up in Berryville in parked at Shaw Mack.

If my memory is right, that was a hell of a winter.
It snowed every weekend, I felt like I lived in a snow storm.
No matter where I went North of Alabama, it was snowing.
25, 4 years under my belt, I enjoyed the heck out of it.
Unless stuck behind a wreck.

Amazon sells solar lanterns. I bought a pack of 4 and put them on a window sill along with a solar charging radio and a solar USB charger.

When the lights go off, we just pull these out and have enough light for a fairly normal life.

I've got all sorts of other solutions, but that's the one we've found that's cheap and works.

We have about a dozen rechargeable LED light bullbs, look like a normal 60 watt light bulb with a small hook for hanging, controlled by a little remote. Last about 3 to 5 hours of continuous use, depending on brightness setting. Can hang them wherever you need light. We use them for tent camping as well.

Price is reasonable. They hold a charge well when not in use.

I have 2 of the old time kerosene lamps. They burn for many hours on a single charge of lamp oil.

In my life time, I think the longest the power was out was 2 days. We had a generator for that.

99.999% of the interruptions are less than an hour. Don't really use anything. I'm from the midwest - if the storm's good enough to knock out the power, its good enough to sit in a bag chair in the garage with beers - watching it.

Generator.. Failing that, candles do nicely..

Always have several head lamps and small flashlights stashed around the house, for the power outages. Until two years ago when I had a 20kw Kohler stand by and auto transfer switch installed. Now 6-8 seconds after the power goes out, we are back to life as normal.

Kerosene lamps and flashlights, if the power outage lasts too long, we just move to the camper until the power comes back on.

Surely not pre 64!

Here in northern ND our power has never failed long enough to cause a problem. We don’t have ice storms like down south. Trees crashing into power lines is also not a problem. I’m alright with that. Edk

Candles do just fine. So do oil lamps. And propane lanterns. And there is the generator.

10K watt duel fuel back-up generator

I have a 5 watt Harbor Freight solar panel.

Some day I hope to upgrade to it's big 10 watt brother.

When we bought our 1st 40 acres there was an ice storm that year and the line right in front of the entrance was down for close to 3 weeks. The electric guys focused on KC and the surrounding towns so a road with 4 houses was a "get around to it".

In town we went without electricity for close to a week and a half.

After that experience, when we had our house built I had a Generac 20KW standby generator with it's own 500 gallon propane tank installed. Now the lights go out and in a few seconds they come back on. the 20KW powers the whole house to include the geothermal unit, so no worries.

Nice bunch of Coleman lanterns.

I’m way more concerned about my 5 freezer that being able to see in the dark

I have the same model and it works wonderfully. The power usually is stable here but it will go out during strong thunderstorms in the summer and was out three days last winter after a heavy snow storm.

Biggest reason to get it was that Nevada Energy has been threatening to go full PG&E and shut the power off during red flag days in the summer.

Solar powered flashlight

I sit in the dark and enjoy the peace and quiet!