No way of knowing, really, how the crews are progressing up the winding country roads along which travel the lines that carry my power. Slightly less frustrating, tho, than back in Fairfield where the other side of the street seemed somehow to get power back before I did!

   I have a feeling that this is going to be a very rough winter.  Even if we don't get another Sandy-type storm in the next year or so, the thought of having a nor'easter coming up the coast just a week and a day from her landfall is enough to make me hope they can at least get some relief on the stricken coasts before that arrives.  The hope here is that Sandy-type events are once a century, and the experience is enough to make people think twice about disobeying evacuation orders or not investing in that backup generator system.

   I've already heard statements to the effect that this winter will be a stormy one.  The current forecast is for mixed rain and snow in my neck of the woods, which won't be so bad unless that becomes an ice storm Wednesday morning.  I saw lows at 28-30 degrees Farenheit in one forecast, and that doesn't take much to produce the ice that could weigh down power lines and make roads dangerous.  The folks still without power along the shoreline will have to worry about flood tides making their way into the neighborhoods already quite exposed due to the dunes being washed away.

Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!!!!!!!!!!

They're GONE!! What the %#*% were they doing???