Still Cold

Well, the whole cold / ice / power outage thing got interesting.

As I mentioned previously, Scruffy spent the night with us Sunday night / Monday morning, because his electricity was out. I knew he'd return the favor someday. I didn't expect it to be so soon... that morning, his power came back and ours went away. We've been without electricity two days now.

It's bizarre to drive down the streets and see the carnage. Most of the downed power lines are at least moved out of the way now, but you can see icy trees leaning on power lines all over the place. Some restaurants and businesses are open, some are dark.

We went into IHOP Tuesday morning and took our place at the end of the massive line. Within seconds we were asked if we were doctors... a customer had fallen or something. We left (without breakfast) as the ambulance was arriving.

I may try to get some pictures of the tree bits. There are places where there are far more bits on the ground than what remain in the tree itself.

We are hopeful that we'll get our electricity back late tonight or early tomorrow. In the meantime, I remain Scruffy's prisoner.

Please send help.