Cripe, that was a heckuva storm last night. 60mph (95kph) gusts were knocking trees down left and right, and around midnight I got to watch the sky catch on fire as a nearby power substation fried, sending giant blue and orange arcs all about. It was quite a spectacle, but it also meant we're in for a long power outage. And the more immediate consequence was that it cut off electricity to the pump in the basement, and the waters started rising really fast. So, with trusty bowl in hand, I went into the bowels of the house and bailed it out through the whole night.

I wonder if beavers have this problem in their homes too?

Anyway, it was a wet, fun-filled night, but I'm proud to say a flood was averted! Fortunately a nearby friend hadn't lost power, so I was able to borrow his generator to get the pump (and the heat) back online. But the cable's still out, which means I won't have access to the net much until the infrastructure is fixed. Hoping everybody else on the east coast fared better!

UPDATE: Power's back on! Woohoo!