Ice storm hit us yesterday knocking out our power from 10AM until about 10AM this morning (24hour outage). Without power, our basement flooded with maybe 5" of water. Fortunately, a friend brought over a generator today and we've drained the basement of water (although more is coming in, the restored power is letting our sump pump take care of it). Then our old sump pump froze and so we had to install a new one. Fortunately, the old one had lasted long enough to get rid of almost all the water and so we got the new one in with little additional damage. Anyway, from 10AM yesterday amid freezing temperature, our house dipped only from 73 to 61 when the power came back on today. Without power, of course, no router or modem and so no pixies this morning. Hopefully no more heavy rains and freezing temps building up ice on the trees and lines ... and least not in the immediate future. We're ready for a break.