OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — With the power out and an electric water pump silenced, Shannon Wickware and a house full of relatives had only to fetch a pile of snow from outside whenever they got thirsty. There is plenty of it to go around.

“It’s just snow. That’s all we can see,” Wickware said Tuesday from her home at Woodward in northwest Oklahoma, which received 15 inches of snow during a blizzard on Monday. “We’ve been trying to melt snow and drinking that. And we’ve been just trying to keep the fire going.”