I've been through 3 ice storms that have knocked the power out for at least 3 days; one time a week.

Doesn't sound that bad when you realize we live in a wooded area, and trees were falling down left right and centre; not safe to go on the roads, and fires were starting at transformers everywhere. The power goes out, and it's below freezing so it starts to get dangerous in your house, a lot of your freezer food will spoil because it gets warm during the day(if you keep it outside).

After about day 3 of not showering/ living inside your snow suit it starts to wear on you mentally. Seniors are most at risk of freezing to death.

So though it's not life threatening, living in the winter while unprepared in Canada is not fun, especially when you are still expected to get to work.

Sun goes down at like 6 p.m, which means you are shaving in ice cold water by candlelight because you get home from work after it's dark.

You have to charge your cellphone at work and only use it as an alarm clock, and all your food has to be take out.

Again, we are in a wooded area, so going to collect fire wood during an ice storm is dangerous.

It literally sounds like a war zone outside because every minute you hear a giant crack and bang from a tree falling down.

My Driveway during the ice storm a week ago Those pine trees are like 100 feet tall and the limbs are the size of trees themselves and where just snapping off, getting out to clear the driveway was dangerous

What an ice storm can do to a tree from last weeks storm too, all the birches go first because they're the weekest, I wasn't able to take anymore pictures because my phone had died and the power was out by then.