Was writing a reply to this a three hours ago, telling you how easily
we'd gotten through this, when Isobel had a bit of a giggle at my
expense and knocked the power out.  We just got the lights back on about
15 minutes ago.  It wasn't any real hardship, though I found out that
the kids I'd told to find flashlights, camp stove, propane cylinders,
and lanterns, bothered to do nothing of the sort.  They still don't know
where the camp stove is.  Sigh.  At least we didn't need it.

The current winds are 31 mph gusting to over 50 mph and it still
raining.  We haven't lost any trees, there isn't too much storm damage
floating around my back yard, and none of it is ours anyway, and we're
all intact.  The cats didn't even pay attention (that I could tell) to
the storm.  Apparently, they decided that I didn't end the world by
water and are not blaming me for the world being wet.  Wait until
winter.

Pam S.