We had a nor’easter two winters ago that knocked out our power for six days. Six days. Not the dramatic end-of-the-world scenario I had been theoretically planning for — just a normal bad New Jersey winter storm that took out a lot of trees and a lot of transmission lines. By day two I had stopped feeling smug about our prep and started making notes about everything we had wrong. Here is the honest debrief. What worked, what failed immediately, and what surprised me about how my family actually