So the weather around here has been mildly batshit:

• Power returning after massive B.C. storm from the CBC

I can’t say it bothered me much, though.  My apartment building lost power for a bit more than twelve hours, and cable (read: internet) for a bit more than twenty-four.  While the power was out, we had no heat (electrically-operated thermostats) or hot water (apparently the boiler is itself electric).  Naturally, lighting was a problem.  However, I’d taken a hint from the previous severe storms and stocked up on such things as tea lights and canned chili, and spent most of the outage eating remarkably good food and playing Oolite on my new MacBook.

I don’t mean to be smug about this, but merely to point out how ten bucks’ worth of minor preparation can make it much, much easier to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.