I remember the ice storm of 98 but only because it dominated the news. we were not hit very hard at all, but an hour and 2 north of us was hit real hard. I don't think we even lost power on that one.
We did however lose power with "the Labor Day Storm of 98". On that one we were without power for about 7-8 days. All of the neighbors were worse off than we were. We opened up our home and hosted about 14-16 neighbors for breakfast and dinner from about day 3-7. We made a party of it. I had to drive about 25 miles and stand in line for about 2 hrs. to buy some dry ice and they restricted how much you could buy so the vendor could serve more people.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.