It's okay to burn indoors for a short period. Burning stuff indoors creates carbon monoxide; it can harm and even kill you.

My wood stove was 500 used, @ 1,000 to install(2010), and it's a pleasure to use; fire is down to coals because the sun is pouring in.

Power goes out and my neighborhood is so noisy with generators, houses all lit up. It makes sense to run the heat and fridge, but a lot of people have to have every convenience.

I get Portland Water - safe, clean, reliable.

Maine got the storm after everybody else, and it was a doozy. CMP is inept, but not horribly inept.

I'm in Windham. I could go a month without power or shopping if I had to. Even in the big Ice Storm, people could get to their wood for the stove. Wood stove would keep my house & pipes warm enough. Everybody should have a battery-operated radio and flashlight, and batteries. It's easy to store some food and water unless you have a big family and a really small home.

Make sure to you have a Carbon Monoxide alarm; cheap and might save your life.

LED flashlights & batteries. I use battery LED string lights for ambient light. Headlamps are super-convenient.
Candles & matches; they don't really give much heat but they are cheery. use a safe candleholder; tealights in a short jar work well.
Store water in 1-, 2-, & 3 liter soda pop bottles. They're food safe and easy to clean. Some people say to replace every 6 months; I don't - water doesn't go bad. (I get city water and have never needed to rely on stored water, but it's good to be prepared.)
Keep the fridge and freezer full. It's more efficient, and if you lose power, food will stay cold longer. I use bottled water if the fridge or freezer are not full of food.
I love my wood stove. It supplements oil heat and keeps me warm in a power outage.
Easy to prepare food. Canned soup, tuna, canned fruit, applesauce, etc.
Lost power on the 23rd, was warm and comfortable, had tuna on an english muffin toasted on the wood stove.
Keep the phone charged, and get an external battery. It was nice to be able to use the phone when I lost power. Emergency radio - Mine has a crappy solar charger but also charges with a plug, has a flashlight and will charge USB devices. It has a crank but that's a big pain to use.
I have wool blankets and a down comforter, and lots of winter gear to layer on to stay warm.

I was here for the Ice Storm, mostly kept power, but so many friends lot power - up to 12 days. Much worse in Canada.

Fill the tub partway and some milk jugs. Flush only for solid waste.

Choral Arts has a sing-along, Woodfords Church. great musicians & conductor Robert Russell.
https://woodfordscorner.org/events-old/http/wwwchoralartorg/events/messiah-sing-along Also Christmas at the Cathedral https://www.choralart.org/Events/christmas2022/

It's really fun. I hope to go on the 10th, but that date is heavily booked, so not sure.

Quality at Walmart can be sketchy; some of their own-brand goods are nasty.
Walmart loves giant packages; I saw some nice looking pumpkin bites with crumb topping, but 244 of them is a bit much (I exaggerated, oops, it was probably 24).
I occasionally shop Walmart because it's there and has other useful stuff, but it's not satisfying.

Hannaford has better quality meat and produce. Shaws is finally cleaning up stores, but self-service checkout is crappy, customer service is often difficult.

Shaws has a lot of sale items, but you have to buy 5 or 10 of something. It annoys me no end and I avoid shopping Shaws because of it. Sure, I can store an extra 4 packages of pasta, but not frozen food, and I don't want that many packages of cookies in the house.

Maine has had more rigorous standards for minimum lobster sizes and not taking egg-bearing lobsters than neighboring Canada and New Hampshire. Not sure about now, but this was the case in the past. Lobsters don't stop at boundaries, so this was beneficial to Canada & NH lobster fishers.

bandwidth here under the rock is not so great.

Apparently I live under a rock, but I had not heard of the Auburn Walmart car-attacking pole before, so, thanks, I think.

Unposted land that is not near homes, barns, farm animals. Call your local game wardens, ask for advice. Take a gun/ hunting safety class to meet hunters. There's some national forest in Maine, not sure if hunting is allowed, but you could find out.

I wish it covered more than vehicles, but I broke my policy on not signing for paid signature gatherers to sign it.

Humans are social, and seeing what other people are doing may have some influence. They're not cheap - 3 - 4 dollars each. And people want them, whether they're shown to be effective or not.

Bean boots are made in Maine.

UPS can be wacky.