We lost power for 10 days, and had 8 people in a 3BR, 1bath house. I learned that cookie sheets make a great snow shovel, that I could pack cold foods on the North side of the house in a tarp under a huge pile of snow, that I could warm water and canned goods on a floor furnace and once it was over I had Zero pioneer spirit for the rest of my life. I'm over 80 now and still hate snow.