I have a total electric house. My heating is electric, my air conditioning is electric and all my appliances are electric. I guess the last couple items are a bit redundant when it comes to being electric, but I’m upset. The electricity went out in my house last week, during a blizzard. As I said, without electricity, I didn’t have any heat. I sighed, upset about the lack of electricity, but then I remembered I had a fireplace. I brought in wood and put it on the hearth. I had everything all set up before I opened the flue. I wanted to make sure the fire lit quickly. I went to light the fire and I realized I had an electric starter. The fireplace, which I had never tried to use, was actually an electric insert. Looked around the house, searching for every blanket I could find. I had to figure out how to stay warm until the power came back on. I called the local hotel to see if they had power. It seemed like every place in town was without electricity and there wasn’t any heat. I couldn’t travel too far in a blizzard, so I couldn’t even drive to my mom’s house. All I could do was wait out the blizzard and hope the electricity and heating would come on before my pipes began to freeze or I became a popsicle. I could only hope that neither of these things happened. I kept praying the power would come back on and so would my heating system.