No Power, No Heat

A terrible ice storm hit my area last night. About 11 PM just after chatting with a friend I lost power to my house. This morning I'm still without power and consequently without heat. The power company predicts an extended outage with four to five days to get power fully restored to all customers. I'm writing this entry from work right now. I plan to stay with a friend tonight. Temperatures are expected to drop to 10 degrees overnight. I pray my water pipes don't freeze and burst.

UPDATE (7:00 PM): Power is back on. My Linux box is now acting strangely. It failed to power up and then failed to initialize the network card. I finally coaxed it back to life. Yeah, Internet and email access is restored! Also, my pipes are fine.

Posted at 1:29 PM