How many of us are ready to handle 8-12 inches

[Dawggie]

of snow?

Are you prepared to possibly be stranded in your house for a time with no power?

[bicentennial_baby]

1. We got 10 inches on Thursday...

Eh, par for the course in MA :shrug:

[Breeze54]

4. I only got 9 inches but it was soooo good!

:P

:rofl:

I don't think I even have any candles in the house. :(

Guess I'll have to go to my sisters' house if I lose lights.

Oh well, her house is nicer than mine so I can deal with that! :rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

5. I keep meaning to buy some candles...

We've been in the dark before...How boring it was! After a while, we decided to leave and go walk around the cemetery across the street...

[Breeze54]

7. I hate it and it is boring. - I bought

a wind up radio. It's OK but you have to wind it about every 15 minutes and that gets old fast.

Last time we lost lights I went to the AMVETS hall/bar and they didn't have lights either

but they had booze and music and other house orphans to talk to! ;)

[Dawggie]

9. Here in the SE, it would shut us down for weeks. n/t

[greendog]

2. It'd take more than that to shut things down around here.

Even the remote parts of the county are dug out within 24 hours.

[reyd reid reed]

3. Sure...

at least most of the time. But we've almost always got spare batteries and flashlights and lanterns and stuff. And we've got a fireplace in the living room and a wood stove down in the basement.

8-12 inches of snow wouldn't knock out the power, though. Usually.

[Generic Brad]

6. Are snow threads allowed?

[Deja Q]

10. Only if they're not yellow...

:hide:

[DarkTirade]

8. I dunno, I'm not sure I can... ooooooh, SNOW. Nevermind.

O8)

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. I have food and water, but if the power goes we will be without heat.

[tigereye]

12. well, our power used to go out in winter periodically

but not for very long.

One time after a rare tornado in the summer, we were without power for about 5-6 days. Bathing a toddler and getting him to bed by flashlight got pretty old.

In the winter, it wouldn't be good - we don't really have any non-electric heaters...

[Redstone]

13. We're all set. We have:

-A full tank of propane for the fireplace "logs."

-Two Aladdin lamps for reading light, and half a dozen books from the library.

-1.75 liters of Viking Fjord Vodka, and orange juice to match.

-3 packs of Parliament Lights.

-Two APS 1000 VA battery backups.

-And a generator, with 15 gallons of gasoline to feed it. We have a deal with the neighbors; we'll refrigerate the food and beer, and they'll bring the shovels.

Redstone