Current or former residents of the South are eligible for this group. Let's have a REUNION!!!!!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. I remember a lovely powerless Thanksgiving in mid 1980's up there

I had a log house on Whidbey Island, and thankfully a BIG wood stove, the storm hit that morning,
and all over Puget Sound people were left staring at giant uncooked turkeys.
I put mine back in a clean secure garbage can on the back porch ( the temps stayed cold enough for days)
and made chowder on the stove instead.
but after 3 days it did get a bit old with no power, no well pump w/o electricity, but I could melt snow on the stove for flushing the toilets, I had, and still have, 20 old fashioned kerosene lamps, most of them handed down from my G'ma.
We played card and board games and stayed warm by the light and heat of the lamps and stove,
the kids hauled sleeping bags down to the living room by the stove, we had tons of cut wood.
One of our most memorable holidays in Puget Sound.