1996 was the year of the Ice storm in SW Louisiana.
We were without electric power for 4 days and we had just moved to Moss Bluff a few months earlier. I only had enough firewood for a few fires.
But we were in a new subdivision and there were several big stacks of trees left from clearing lots. We lived on the couch for 3 days in front of the fire place. Several times we went out and cut more wood. Often I had to throw the wood on the road to break off some of the ice.
With the fireplace and Coleman stove...... we made of just fine. You can really burn some wood when you keep a fire going all day for 4 days.
The day of the Ice storm, I was out Deer hunting and had no idea how bad it was back home. When I got up on I-10 to head home about 3 PM, I started seeing some vehicles with Ice on them. I thought the temp. was about 40 F and not 10 degrees colder.
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