Day 3

As in without electricity.  This has been said more eloquently by many others, but until you are without electricity and by extension the other trappings of modernity, you have no idea how frustrating it can be.  Since we also depend on a well for water and a furnace for hot water, we can't wash anything, as well as see after dark.  Of course the most frustrating item is dealing with the power company, in this case NYSEG.  When you finally reach a representative, they can't or won't tell you anything.  So you are literally and figuratively in the dark.