We were out for 14 days when I was kid, in 1962, after the "Columbus Day Storm" (nearest thing we ever had to a hurricane, in western Washington).
Neighbor down the road several hundred feet had a generator, I guess, because he could pump out of his well, somehow- I was pretty young, and don't remember the specifics. We combined all of his hoses and all of our hoses, and wound up with enough to reach to our front yard.
At 9 AM and 3 PM, he would honk his car horn, which was the signal that he was hooking us up. We were in the front yard, at the ready with our jugs. Pretty soon, the water would start flowing (weakly, of course, through several hundred feet of hose), and we would fill our jugs. When full, we would honk our horn, and he would shut it off.
Pete and Lizzy Henry, emigrants to Washington from Nebraska- they were what neighbors were like, back in the day. Both long since gone, but I remember them fondly. Lizzie cooked on a wood range, but their foster son Jerry thought she should have an electric range. She hated it, and would just store stuff on top of it, but clear it off when he was going to come visit, so he would think she was using it.
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