The more I hear about this, the more I count my lucky stars that the full brunt of the thing somehow missed me.  Just a few miles away, there were a couple of downed trees and one of the creeks remained over its banks into Tuesday morning, but nothing more serious than that.  Power blinked out twice, but not since that.

   That being said, I'm starting to hear that we may be in for a snowy winter.  If it ain't a hurricane bunny-hopping a Nor'Easter on the way through New Jersey, it could be a big snow or ice-storm dumping on us in January.  In either case, I think the house is overdue for that generator backup system (I'd get by with just the heater, refrigerator, water pump and clothes washer running then).

-- and soon the petrol will run out and there will be gangs on the highways wearing hockey masks and leather bondage outfits while throwing metal boomerangs.

Coke bottles in the fridge melted completely, so swapped 'em for the half dozen I'd left in the freezer. That should buy me a few more days of unspoiled food. Hope I won't need 'em!