Well, there's about a foot of snow on the ground and the power hasn't flickered once (at least according to the uptimes on my Unix machines). Nor have the phone lines gone out. Maybe the last time a hurricane came through, they bothered to put up lines that were made more recently than 1954 (when the last big hurricane came through). Regardless, I'm still here. (Aren't you glad?!?) But the snow's still coming down. Plus, there hasn't been a real melt and refreeze yet, so the utility companies sill have a chance to screw it up. Fortunately, I have a real wooden desk to knock on here.