Surprise, surprise. I'm back for now.

I'm back, at least for an hour or so. The rumor is the power might go back down in about an hour.

I just wanted to post a quick housekeeping message for all concerned. The family is all fine. I had a window pane break in the middle of the storm, but no property damage in the family of any note. Trees down everywhere. Parent's house, Catherine's house are untouched. I just found out they have power, too.

As for what happened outside of our little neighborhoods, you probably have a better sense than we do. From what I can gather, the storm jogged east right before landfall which significantly mitigated some of the worst storm surge fears.

Up here, roads are generally passable. No stores open yet, probably tomorrow. Not nearly as bad as it could have been.

Anyhow, the family is all accounted for, happy, and apparently air conditioned, so, that's about five gold stars on expectations.