Also, I should mention that my network (and mains power) returned today.
So, I'm finally able to type on a real keyboard. That's a great feeling. I despise typing on a phone. Text entry on a phone is just too difficult for me. I miss the old slide-out phones that had QWERTY keyboards attached. Those were also horrible, but they were less horrible (for me).
I touch type, easily typing in the 90 wpm category. Having an acceptable keyboard is an important thing to me. It needn't be an expensive keyboard, it just needs to be acceptable. Phones are not that, at least not for me. I'm sure some folks are good and fast with this, but I am not among that group.
Anyhow... The storm was awesome (and not in a good way). Words like 'spectacular' spring to mind.
Downtown Farmington had something like 18' of water (about 6 meters) at Hippach (spelling?) Field. The water was up and over the round balls that sit atop the fences that surround the front of the field.
Firemen and police were extracting residents via boats and there are still road closures. In fact, some of the roads will be closed for a long time. There are bridges that will need to be torn down and replaced. You can't just nudge 'em back into place. That's not how bridges work.
We've had flooding off and on throughout the year. Those roads had been repaired in many cases. They're now out again.
Then, there are the lives lost - both directly and incidentally. For those folks, things will never return to 'normal'. Their families are also going to have issues getting back to normal and the following holiday seasons will remind them of this year. What more can I say? That sucks.
I'm grateful to have nothing that money can't fix.
Also, there will be a boom in the maternity wards in about 9 months. Following any major outage there's a boom in children born. All that darkness leads to baby making. In fact, my daughter is a 'storm baby'. We built her after a hurricane took out the infrastructure. If you're going to make shirts, now's the time to get that project started. Those shirts always sell well when the children are being born.