I'm not sure I'd even know how to live for 4 or 5 days without power. Like what does one eat? What does one do for entertainment. Certainly you can't shower or work. No hot water to even take a decent shower. Would be pretty rough if I'm being honest.
Our water is fine so showering and cleaning is not an issue. Plus temps are still in the mid-80s here in GA so even if we run out of hot water, the water should still be lukewarm and not ice cold.
My in laws are in Aiken, SC and are now on Day 3 with no power. Sorry I could not take that.
This is why I have a generator that runs on propane.
BIL had one and sold it last year.
Makes me realize how unprepared I would be. My damn pellet smoker would be useless. Not even sure if my gas oven functions without power but maybe. Everything is plugged in these days.
A couple of my co-workers live in Aiken and they said their power was turned back on yesterday. I guess they're on a different grid than your in-laws.
I'll never understand why people would choose to live where this can happen.
I did it after Hurricane Fran or Floyd in 96 or 98. I was like 14 at the time though so it was probably way easier. I remember everyone pulled their grills out into the street and cooked up all the meat in their freezers cause it was gonna go bad and we had a block party.
Man, am I glad I didn't move to Florida when I was close to doing so about 10 years ago. You used to be relatively safe from these huge fucking hurricanes on the central to northern east coast there, but not anymore.
Western NC doesn't typically have weather that bad.
I was actually thinking about florida and the coastal areas when I wrote that. Where Hurricanes are a yearly thing.
Gotcha, no way I'd move to Florida but we love to visit.
I was pretty sure I was seeing what you did there.