"Don't have no heat, can't wash clothes and can't take baths," Connie Morgan said. "It's hard, we can't do the things we're used to doing."

For Morgan, the recent power outages means many struggles, but not all of them are with electricity.

"Grandkids have been driving me crazy, wanting to know why they can't watch DVDs and why cable's not on."

This isn't Morgan's first time without power.

This past June, Eyewitness News did a similar story with her and her family when they had no power. Only then they were wanting the air conditioner, and today they're wanting heat.

"We burned up in the summer time, now we're freezing in the winter time," she said.

But not everything is a lost cause. Morgan and her family do have one lifeline...a kerosene heater. And ontop of that is a pot filled with water that they've been using to wash dishes and prepare warm meals, such as soup.

"It's not perfect, but it gets the job done," Darian Ketgray says.

10-year-old Ketgray appreciates his grandmother's ingenuity, but says it's still a pain.

"It's kind of nerve-racking having to cook on this, takes a little while of time to heat up," he said.

But until the power is turned back on, Morgan believes her heater will work well enough for little household chores.