Wishfull thinking....

Wish it looked like this outside today!  Snowapalooza has started and we are hunkering down for the duration.  Have plenty of food and such, but hope the electricity doesn't go out.  When I was 8 and 9 we lived in Central Kansas, and had a couple of real hard Blizzards.  We lost power for 3 months and had to pump the water at the windmill, then carry it from the basement up to the kitchen, using outdoor stairs.    We made candles from wax and crayolas, used kerosene lamps.  When school opened back up, I had to walk in deep snow a mile+ to get on an open trailer, pulled by a tractor to go another 2 miles to the closest open road.