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So I'm back to work today, although five days later, 432,000 homes in Connecticut are still without power. The picture you see here is one that I took of the street where I parked my car yesterday. If I'd walked a block or so from my home, I could have taken far more dramatic pictures of power lines down or larger branches, but this one does let you see a couple of downed branches in the foreground and a yellow car at the far end of the street making a U-turn since the street (in the background) is blocked by a downed branch and a power line.

We still have houseguests, since power is still out in so many places. You can click this map to see Connecticut Light and Power's map of current outages. The northern central part of the state appears to be in the roughest shape currently, and West Hartford is right in that area.

The last picture I'm going to try to fit in this post is the snowman that I built with Lia before those dad-gummed whipper snappers from next door murdered it. It doesn't look that big, but that stuff was some seriously heavy snow. I'm sure that the center ball was over 100 pounds - possibly 150ish pounds. And I could never have lifted the bottom part. That was easily over 200 pounds.

We're lucky to have had power all along, but I still have no internet connection at home. I did figure out how to tether my phone to my home PC so that I could play Starcraft 2, which for some reason requires an internet connection in order to play the single-player campaign.