If you go back far enough you can find my post from the very early days of this site where I had a bit of a live update of that entire catastrophe and just how unprepared we were for it.

A lot of people were ready for rolling blackouts and dripping our pipes but some people like myself wound up going essentially a week without power and almost no cell/data service. I braved it out for 3 days in my home before I woke up under every blanket and coat I owned trying to stay warm, saw the layer of frost covering my phone and realized Ralph Wiggum style: "oh...I'm in danger!!!". Thankfully I was able to make a blind drive to my mother's and she had power but man it got kinda real there for a minute. Forget being career ending: in a sane society we'd have been calling to have this jackass drug through the street