I just got my power back on after being without it for approx 72 hours. My candles didn't provide very much lighting so I was constantly using flashlights. When I had to use various rooms I would just stand the flashlights up and let the light reflect of the ceiling which worked pretty well. Also used a small flashlight to read in bed. These were Maglite flashlights with LED bulbs. A 2-cell 12" standard model and a smaller pocket-size one (takes 3 tripple A batteries) which works remarkably well. Neither of the batteries in either one of them died out on me durng the 3 days of usage, which I was happy about.

To keep drinks cold during the 72 hours I had filled up some empty 2 liter poland spring bottles with tap water and then froze them in the freezer in advance of the storm. When the power went out I filled a camping cooler up with a few inches of water and then dropped the frozen poland spring bottles in there to keep it cold. I really only chilled some drinking water/gatorade/OJ, and some champagne. : )