In the cold dark light of a winter's morning

[sovay]

Fortunately we had only a small blackout, but the backyard is covered with downed trees and broken branches: less snow fell here than, say, even a few miles over in Winchester, but what we got was wet crystallized lead. My aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania have been without power for a day.

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[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Central Connecticut's power grid is an ex-parrot. The shoreline seems to be intact.

[sovay]

Central Connecticut's power grid is an ex-parrot. The shoreline seems to be intact.

Are you still freezing in shabby velvet and a frost-blown garret, keeping warm with laudanum?

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Power returned last night, and the police seemed very interested in my inquiries in regards to laudanum, so I was forced to stop.

[chomiji]

Yikes, that's exactly what I was worried about with our trees here - most of them still have their leaves. We managed to dodge that bullet by a couple of degrees: all we got was rain. I'm sorry your trees were damaged.

[sovay]

We managed to dodge that bullet by a couple of degrees: all we got was rain. I'm sorry your trees were damaged.

We lost two locust trees, but fortunately the lilac unbent once the snow was off it and the pine is only missing branches. Still. October. Yeesh.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you only had a small blackout. I hope everything's going okay.

I'm sorry for your trees--we lost limbs off several of ours. I've not made an intensive survey yet--some of the ones in the wood may be down completely. A substantial part of the lilac beside the deck is down, but I'm hoping there's enough left for the tree to survive.

We lost power roundabouts 8pm on Saturday. Still haven't got it back. Run the generator, alternate plugging in the sump pump (to keep its backup battery from going out and the basement flooding) with turning on the furnace (which runs on oil, but has an electric thermostat that sometimes uses a fair bit of power), turn it off and leaving it sit for a few hours, turn it on again, turn it off before going to bed, turn it on again in the morning, repeat: this is my life the past few days.

There's one Starbucks that's got power and wifi. This is the first I've managed to log into LJ, between FB and trying to keep up with everything else, including a presentation for my Irish class tonight.