Well, we are coping with the Great Ice Storm of 2008

[TayTay]

It has not been easy. My house in Northern, MA has been without power since 1 AM Thursday morning. We are making do, so far. But this has been an unbelievable disaster for a lot of people here in the literally Frozen North.

400,000 people in NH have lost power, 260,000 or so are still without it and it may be many more days before it is restored. Over 160,000 people in MA, including my home, are still without power. (Over 390,000 lost power initially in the ice storm.)

This is the worst damage some people have seen in a long, long time. My Mom had home movies of the damage causes by Hurricane Carol in 1954. It's sort of like that was. Really bad. Trees down everywhere, services and power out for days and a lot of damage around.

It has been an interesting weekend. Not fun, not fun at all. I just got back to work today and finally have power to check in.

Oy!