Amanda Pensack was sitting in the dark, shivering, dehydrated, and hungry.
She wondered when the lights were going to come back on. The power came in waves for five days and nights.
“The little things that we were all so concerned about every day like, you know, stressing out about a meeting at work or a deadline at work, or relationship problems,” she said, “those did not matter at all last week.”
Pensack, who moved to the Lakeway, Texas area on a whim just two months ago, had lived in Boston her whole life.
Alongside her friend from the city, she had decided to escape the New England winter. Thinking it was going to be in the 60s and 70s, they only brought lightweight clothing.