The toilet will flush as long as there is water in the tank. Some city water systems have enough pressure that toilets continue to function in a power outage, provided that the municipal water system itself is functioning. If you’re on a well and don’t have a generator, it won’t work unless you physically pour water into the tank.
Exactly. That’s why we now have a generator.
At least we had snow during the storm but do you know how much snow you have to melt in pots on the wood stove to fill a toilet tank? Not fun.
The other thing that really got to me was the lack of electricity once it got dark which it did at that time of year around 4:30 P.M. Newlyweds probably wouldn’t have minded but we aren’t and huddling up to the lantern to read and moving around otherwise with a flash light got old very quickly. We were totally snowed in way back on a country road that didn’t get plowed for days, btw.