Hurricane Helene Flood and Technology

 So I live up a road that has quite a bit of tree coverage that is right next to all the power lines. Due to this, when the wind started knocking down trees, those trees started to fall on the power lines. The power didn't come back till just under 3 weeks later so any technology using electricity pretty much played no role in my experience(other than the lack of it making me extremely bored). The only technology that really had an impact was the gas stove(if you can call it technology, it's kind of just setting gas on fire) as it was used quite frequently to make food and boil water. Other than that, technology didn't really do much till the trees were cleared a week later and then it was just to say I'm not dead and stuck under a tree when I went into Boone for cell service. 

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