We we not impacted by that particular outage but just prior to Christmas that year, I think, or the next, an ice storm hit that put us out of power for 8 days. That was nasty and revealing. Our 20 mile stretch of line, twice the approved lenght, was also the LAST priority of the entire system. We were served by a rural electric coop and the outage had many treees downing lines. On the eight day, when their PR lady announced that all power had been restored, funny, ours wasn't restored, to call in if someone saw a limb hanging on a line. I called them to explain my power hadn't bee restored, emphatically, got put on the "irate customer line" - a new distinction and got to speak directly to the CEO. We had a nice discussion, I explained my frustration and within an hour the power came on. That was a difficult week, food placed outside on deck as it was below 15 degrees all week, fireplace running all week long, our only heat, etc. Power outages prove our reliance on electricity and the expectation of a constant supply.
