LOL! I know *100%* what you mean! When I was 16, we lived in the middle of frickin' NO WHERE. And I mean NO. WHERE. Like, nowheresville. Anyways, on Dec 22nd, we lost electricity (we lived about 25 miles from the town where the electricity came from, and there'd been some pretty bad snows, plus extreme cold where trees were exploding from the cold.. I think it was going down to about -22 at night that particular night we lost power). We had an electric well too, but luckily we had propane heaters & a propane stove. Lost power. One of my jobs was to go across the street to the nearby creek w/a 5 gallon bucket, break the ice off the creek, get a bucketful of BUTT-KICKING!! cold-assed water, and lug it up the small hill and back across the street to our house so we could at least flush the toilets. For bathing on the 2nd & 3rd day, I went out into our field (have 5 acres, 3 of which are flat) with Mom's canning pots (50+ quart canning bath pots) and scooped up virgin snow so we could melt it on the stove & give ourselves sponge baths. Luckily we weren't that dependant on electricity (other than water).. this was WAAAAAAAY before computers were all the rage (late 80s), so wasn't dependant on that. Even our phone was a regular analog dial phone (with the big round dial-thingie, not even push button touchtone), but didn't matter as I wasn't allowed to call anyone anyways. Read probably 6-8 books in those 4 days. Got electricity back about 10 minutes before midnight, Christmas Eve/Christmas day. Best damned Christmas present I ever got.
I can feel for you. A few months ago this past spring we lost electricity due to a moron driving into a transformer. We were out of power for about 4-6 hours. Thank goodness I have a charger for my phone in my car, so at least I wasn't suffering from the shakes of not having email/internet!!
