What I remember most about the following few days was, as someone else mentioned, all my favorite TV shows were pre-empted (on all 3 networks and even the Canadian station we could pick up!) No cable TV, no Internet, too cold to play outside, so I had to read (not a hardship
)or play games inside (which was harder, since being an only child I had to either have my friends over, which I couldn't do because the noise upset my mother while she was recuperating, or go to their house, which upset my mother because she couldn't watch me every second, or play board games with my parents.)
