The conversation turns to oyster farming and I talk about spending my early summers in Virginia with my aunt, uncle, and cousin without electricity by the Chesapeake Bay, with hand-drawn water from a well and harvesting oysters from a small inlet.
Over 1.4 million people in New York and New Jersey are still without electricity and heat.
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About 650, 000 homes and businesses were left without electricity, and some could be cold and dark for days.
Nearly 100 towns and villages across the country remain without electricity, and emergency crews are continuing their work to try to restore power.
More than 220 villages and towns in Bulgaria were left without electricity, and toppled trees cut power in several mountainous suburbs in the capital Sofia.
Some lost homes, businesses or just days of sleep and peace along with their power, and still today many are without electricity, water and heat.
Up to 5, 000 homes in Sussex, Kent and Surrey were without electricity overnight after heavy snowfall affected power lines.
Snow storms on Jersey damaged power lines and left about 200 homes without power, and Jersey Electricity said the conditions were the worst it had experienced since the Great Storm of 1987.
Power lines have been toppled and more than 600, 000 people are without electricity in North Carolina and neighbouring Virginia.
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Over the past two days, the Shiite holy city has been without water and electricity, reports said.
She said most residents are confined to their homes, without electricity and running out of food and water.
My neighborhood remains without electricity and cell phone service, and may stay that way for many days more.
Most of the city has been without electricity and water for a week.
The UN says a million people in the territory are without electricity and many are facing "serious hunger" within days.
The Garden State was hit particularly hard by Sandy, leaving millions without electricity and clean water, among them, Knight Capital.
For a few weeks we were without gas and electricity, and water had to be fetched from stand-pipes in the streets.
He visited the mother of a six-week-old baby at Feystown near Glenarm, who said she had been coping in recent days without water and electricity.
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Of the 1.3 billion people without electricity and the 2.7 billion people without access to cooking and heating fuel, two-thirds are women, according to UNDP.
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And I was cleaning it and getting it ready without electricity.
Can you imagine now our world without electricity and without cars?
Performances have been taking place at the theatre for the past two years but without heating and electricity Mr Keats said it was a "semi-derelict, season-dependant building".
Growing up without electricity and running water in a village near Chinese University--where his father was a professor--he was more interested in skipping school than in learning arithmetic.
Many of the residents are still without electricity and water.
Growing up without electricity and running water in a village near the Chinese University of Hong Kong--where his dad was a professor--he was more interested in hanging out with his friends and skipping school than in learning arithmetic.
This year the economy is expected to expand by 8.2% but critics say the billions of dollars from oil revenues have failed to close the stark gap between a tiny wealthy elite and the millions of poor living without access to electricity, water supply and sanitation.
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Over half of smallholdings lack running water, four-fifths are without telephones, and electricity is patchy at best.
He described the victims as civilians, including women and children, and said the town was without electricity.
Ike's trail stretched into the Midwest, where roads were flooded and thousands of people were without electricity Tuesday.
Still, the Hurricane-cum tropical storm caused a great deal of damage, leaving 21 dead, thousands of destroyed houses, millions without electricity, and whole towns flooded.
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