Kids From Maine Talk About Surviving The Ice Storm Of '98

Creative ways of getting through Ice Storm '98

Ours was cooking. We had beef for breakfast. 11 years old - Readfield Elementary School

I played with my Legos most of the time. 9 years old - Dike-Newell Elementary School

My mother used bottled water to wash shampoo out of her hair. 12 years old - Caravel Middle School

We found that if we sat by a fire and buried ourselves in a book, things weren't so bad. 15 years old - Yarmouth High School

We collected water off the roof to flush the toilets. 13 years old - Freeport Middle School

We got a very long mirror and we put candles in front of it so that it would make double the light. 11 years - Cascade Brook School

We got water off the roof so we could drink it and used a propane fire place and wood stove to cook things on. 14 years old - Freeport Middle School