Just had one of the best Christmas Eve presents EVER... after 3 1/2 DAYS of no electricity in our home, the power came on this evening!!!!! Too bad we have to wait for the water tank to heat back up to wash clothes and take showers!
It's up to 60 degrees in the house now and subjectively feels too hot (after hovering between 45-52 degrees lately). Did have the wood-stove insert going. Got the well pump going w a generator for cold showers. It was a good family-time, all together in the one room w heat, playing board-games during the daylight hours, reading w flashlights after night-fall, and staying under the covers until daylight, since it was tough to do anything till you could see. Anyway, a Christmas Eve for our record book!