In the great storms of the 1980s deep snow & ice brought down many power lines, we had no electricity for 3 weeks, cooking heating by fire wood & coal. We kept milking and feeding the 110 cows,
Milking using a generator powered by tractor, the 300 sheep fed with hay as the snow was to deep for them to find grass,
We had no mobile phones then,
And I didnt play jet set willy on my ZX spectrum for 3 weeks,