*BOOM BOOM...here comes the electric company to turn off your power cause you haven't paid the bill in a few months...and we're keeping it off till you pay...which could be a month or two at a time till they passed a law that they couldn't snub us till spring*

LMFAO@Steph!

As to the longest duration without power...it had NOTHING to do with the "dunerweder" (bad weather...according to the Pa. Dutch), but because we couldn't afford to eat and have lights and heat too. It was bad at the time...but in retrospect it brought us closer together for the lack of outside distractions.

But lemme tell ya folks...to this day I do not get up to pee at night because I was so used to holding it till I HAD to get up in the morning...way back when, when the toilet seat was colder than a brass commode on the shady side of an iceberg!

The worst part of a blackout for me...in my memory...not due to storms...just from lack of money...

Mom piling 6-7 blankets over me to keep me warm...and feeling like a mummy because I could barely turn over in bed!

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