Several years ago, I read an article in our local newspaper featuring area farm families reminiscing about the time when electricity came to their particular farms. For most, this was in the 1940s. While they each had individual stories to tell, the overwhelming response from all was that electricity made their lives on the farm much easier.
I thought about this article recently when a major ice storm left a thick glaze over northeast Nebraska and northwestern Iowa and caused power outages that lasted well over a week for some residents. I guess we were lucky, as we only lost ...
