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Littlesister
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We have already been through this without electricity  for 2 weeks.  It was during summer time after a tornado took out the pumping station in next neighborhood. We had candles and oil lamps as well as flashlights.  We cooked our meat on grill and our stove top was natural gas so all I had to do is light a match for that as the electronics did not work without the electric but could still use it.  Also had a propane stove to use outside. So had coffee each morning brewing on that.  I have a portable DVD player that runs on batteries. So that kept DH happy.  I did a lot of reading.  Our cooking really never changed much as we cook out on the grill a lot in summer anyway. So we cooked steak one night. Chicken another night and cooked hot dogs over the fire pit. We had salads from the garden. Warmed up veggies on stove in house. So we did well for a 2 week span.. We also put puzzles together in the evenings some nights by light of our oil lamps.  We opened windows on the shady side of house during day and kept curtains closed on sunny side. Then as the sun came around to back of house we closed all windows on that side and closed the curtains as well. Then opened windows where shade was on the front of house. It seemed to work well as we stayed rather cool. Though about 3 pm it did get a bit hot as the sun blazes on the back of house for a couple of hours. Our kids are grown so it was just DH and myself. That made it a bit easier.

Yes we did make hobo stew on grill a couple of times as well as corn on cob, pork chops as well.

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