I believe in being prepared. I'm not a doomsday prepper, but being self sufficient for 7 to 10 days never hurts. My concern here was that I was going to have to figure all of this out in the dark, and that could have lead to me making the wrong connections, which would not have been good. I now have everything labeled with masking tape so that I won't skip any steps or make any mistakes if and when I have to do this.
I have a cable modem, but I also have 4G on my smartphone, so I will be able to post if the power goes out. We live on the Chesapeake in Maryland. Our forecast is heavy snow later on this evening, possibly turning to rain / freezing rain tomorrow and then back to snow tomorrow afternoon. They said our total accumulation is somewhere between 7 and 12 inches, but who really knows? Weatherman heave a great job: They are rarely correct, they get paid even if they are wrong, no one really expects much from them and they get to be on television. I clearly went in to the wrong line of work.
My concern with this storm is ice and heavy snow build up on the power lines. If that brings them down, I can at least rely on the info I got here. Ya gotta love the internet! What a great source of information.