We had an ice storm here the 2nd winter after I moved here from sunny California....the power went out on Tuesday & they didn't get it back on until the following Sunday & that was very intermittent. No light, no way to cook & no way to heat the house in the middle of winter. No water. First night my cell phone battery had died without a way to charge it & I didn't have a car charger at that time for the new phone I had just got. I went out to buy a gas powered generator & on the way home I stopped by our police department & charged my phone in their lobby because I knew it was a safe place after being totally new to the location. I used battery powered candles & by Thursday night the flicker of the candles were making the walls close in on me & I had the worst panic attack after almost going into hypothermia earlier that day after taking care of my neighbor's 22 horses....feeding & breaking up the frozen water. That was the longest time of having no electricity I had ever experienced & I was living all alone with my 6 eskie dogs.

LOL....I live at the end of the electric line of our electric company & I experience EVERYTHING that happens along the line. We have had such bad storms this summer & for awhile my lights were going down once a day but only for less than a minute...enough to knock out my computer & all my digital clocks. I am the one that always calls the electric company in our area so they know me really well. They couldn't figure it out the first time & it kept doing it.....but this last time is seems they found the problem because for weeks I've had NORMAL electricity without any downs.

LOL....I also had an old transformer on my electric pole & the birds would land on it & short it out. I was continually having power outages at that point & they would come out & find a poor little dead bird under the pole. Electric company was great, they said....you need a new transformer & got right on it.....insulated one that is bird & squirrel friendly & haven't had any of that kind of problem since & they saved a lot of birds lives.

It is horrible to be without electricity....even at night when we are sleeping anyway. I always have some lights on because I hate the dark living alone, I want to be able to see anything that's going on in my house if I wake up in the middle of the night.

Hope you get your lights back on soon.