Back from powerlessness....

Short report...

We are back on the electric grid since 30 min, after 18 hours in the dark.  Last night was kind of tricky, with trying to get trickling siphon hoses from the flooding basement areas out through the door for automatic but slow (and realiable) water removal.  The backup battery to the sumppump worked too, yeah!  If it weren't for this stupid position of this house with water coming in and flooding it from uphill at major storms, and therefore the need to an all-on-call sump pump to pump out water... but more on that later. Our next house should not have a basement!  Damage in the garden as been assessed and will be reported later.  I am just writing this to let you know we are all OK, even if very tired (up to 2.30 AM dealing with basement floods), dirty, sweaty, but all safe and not hungry.  Trees are down, our road is closed, but more on that later (with pictures!).  We might loose power soon again, so I am going to rush and take a shower now, while I can. Many, many trees can still fall in the strong winds...