"Electric Cooperatives Connect"

female winner;Jayden

Moore;junior

It was a cold winter night in the middle of January. The news had predicted seven and a half feet of snow to fall in Boulder Creek, Tennessee. The Barlow family prepared for this storm with canned food and water. The family had just forgotten a backup heat source. The temperature started rapidly dropping, and by the first night, the blizzard caused three feet of snow. The children were ecstatic because the schools were closing, but the parents were timid.

While the temperatures were above zero degrees, the parents let their kids play in the snow.

"Mom," Ava sh...