During our 2009 ice storm we had no electricity for about a week. My neighbor had 22 horses thst needed fed & the ice broken up on their water. They lived an hour away & unable to travel. I had to hike across my field & climb over the gate, & then pull the hay put of the barn & make my way over the ice , throw the hay over the fence for all the horses. Then I had to climb back over the gate, & hike back across my field in all the slipery ice. By the time I got back into my freezing cold house I was sweating so bad. No hot water to take a shower because my propane had run out the 2nd day of the ice storm. I sat wrapped in a blanket shivvering so bad I could actually feel hypothermia setting in & even the bidy heat of my 6 dogs didn't help. All of a sudden my mind realized that 2 minutes of the cold house to change out of those wet cloths was the only way I was going to survive alone in my house with my dogs. It worked & I started to warm up. I had just moved there from Calif & this was only my 2nd winter on my farm. Had no idea how to survive a winter like that with no electricity.

I have since prepared so will never have an experience like that. They actually sent the national guard door to door to check on everyone in the county.