On Ice!

Things here on Saddle Hill are slowly getting back to normal after the Great Ice Storm of 2008-this was the worst ice storm here on the hill since the January 1998 storm, which left us without power for 8 days. This time we were "only" without power for about 58 hours, but we were extremely lucky, as only one wire was down.

To our south and west, in the most densely populated parts of New Hampshire, it's a different story-on Friday morning almost a half a million NH people were without power, and many will not have power until later this week-some may even be without until after Christmas. In terms of total number of people knocked off, this is 10 times worse than the storm of 1998, which mainly hit central and northern New Hampshire where far fewer people live.

I will be uploading a few pictures of the damage later today, and am also going to throw up a separate blog page with more images.