By the glow of a flashlight, Stacy McAlpine and her 10-year-old granddaughter played Go Fish and other card games as they snuggled up next to a propane fireplace.
Thirty miles south in Robertson County, Elizabeth Smith and her husband cooked freeze-dried camp food over a portable stove. As she cooked, Smith worried about her elderly mother. She prayed the 83-year-old wouldn’t fall as she navigated her home in the dark.
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