Careful what you wish for.
Here in the Midwest, we get more power outages from ice than wind. A few years ago, there was a massive storm that had people without power for months.
A lot of people got sick from trying to use a snowbank as a freezer. The food would get warm in the sun, and refreeze. Not to mention that no power or heat in sub zero conditions gets rather urgent if you have young children.
BTW, a lot of the local news crews and commentators are laughing at you guys. When we get outages, no one cares. When the power goes out on the East Coast for a few days, it becomes a massive front page event! But as my wife said, it may be because we have more storms, and have patterns of what to do. No one panics, and we all sit in the street drinking beer waiting for the power to come on!
Aw man, I never said I wished for winter outage. Gee whiz, we get those about every two years. We are not on the east coast either. WV people are tough and survivors. We don’t sit around whining. Hubby and I actually enjoyed this little adventure. We’ve been through much worse things (he’s a former Marine and I’m a Depression baby). I thought it was neat that the neighbors all came out and we sat around and chatted. Met some neighbors I hadn’t met before. Anyway, as I actually said, it’s easier to have outages in the winter. Shut off the water, drain the pipes, close the doors and go find a motel room ASAP. The freezer will keep. And yes, I did notice all the grumbling being played out on the TV from D.C. area when our power came back. Sounded like they were the only people affected.