I remember one night at Chaco Canyon. My wife and I were playing Monopoly with another couple and the power failed. The other guy and I got up and fetched our respective Coleman lanterns, lighting them up so the game could continue. No one commented - just another routine operation out in the country. Power was restored sometime early the next morning, so we didn't have to worry about the food in the freezers.

I always made sure we had plenty of chow on hand. Bad weather could block the roads and I thought there was a possibility we would need to feed stranded park visitors.