The Great New Hampshire Ice Storm of 2008

Thursday night and Friday a really impressive ice storm battered New Hampshire and the governor declared a state of emergency. Two days later, over 300,000 households are still without power, including ours. We're also missing our landline phone and internet services, and there's no reason to believe that any of this will be fixed anytime soon. Fortunately, we built our house shortly after another impressive ice storm left parts of the region without power for 23 days. As a result, we've got a 17 kW diesel generator out beside the garage that's been keeping us nice and toasty. I've been staying in touch with people using my cell phone, but Verizon's voice service doesn't work inside the house (weirdly, the data service does) so conversations tend to be limited to the length of time I can stand to sit outside on the porch. If you're comfortably situated, too, please join us in contributing to the American Red Cross, whose disaster services are being stretched thin caring for hundreds of people across the state.

Update: We got everything back Monday evening, but 70,000 New Hampshire customers are still without power.