Aahhh...sweet memories! We just went through the other big ice storm before the holidays...7 days without power is no fun believe me! I can relate to the temp in your house...the lowest it got in ours was 39
We were sitting there freezing and my husband asked me if we had anymore blankets, I said no and gave him mine...I had his big bathrobe on so I was o.k. Well, I sat there and started laughing...he asked what I was laughing at...I said, that 6 foot tall stack of quilts on that chair in the corner! We collect antique quilts and at the present time I have about 62 of them and probably another 20 crib and youth quilts. There we sat for, I don't know how long, freezing our froobies off and we had a house full of quilts! And I'm not even blonde.....
Good luck to you guys...so far all we've had is rain but nothing frozen like they predicted
even though we have a chance for some ice tonight it's not supposed to be much this time.