I actually really enjoyed the storms we had at our cabin in the Sierras. It was a short little learning exercise to make sure we were prepared. It was a remote little community, and one year we got 30 feet of snow. You never knew when the storm would topple a tree that would take out your power. Being so remote and depending on snow removal, the power companies couldn’t get up there in a timely manner – ever.
We eventually learned exactly what to have, and I actually enjoyed having next several days in a row of living, as you said like Little House on the Prairie. There was one time the power was out for two weeks and that was a bit much.
When we moved here, we got a whole house generator With the house.. And a 500 gallon propane tank to feed it. However, that would only last for a short time. So two wood stoves inside that can be cooked on and 5 acres of wood, plus the entire Cherokee national Forest at the end of the holler, makes me feel a bit more prepared. Oh, and my pizza oven outside :-) that probably seems extravagant to the neighbors, but that’s in lieu of a real wood cookstove, which is what I really wanted.
It sounds like your son is prepared, no matter what will happen! I would say he has good genes :-)
Actually, he moved from that place.
But the dream house, now.
That’s a different story.
While mr. mm is not a prepper or really prepper inclined, after that little episode, even he agrees with the basics of having an alternate course of heat and something for water.
Besides, there’s NOTHING that can beat wood stoves for steady heat and lots of atmosphere.
We had a wood stove in our old house that we supplemented with and sometimes depended on when the furnace went out and the part didn’t come in as promised.
I ws very surprised at how it changed the atmosphere in the house. The kids were much calmer in the living room when the wood stove was going. Not that they were so bad, but it’s a very peaceful thing.