Thank you all for your kind words and allowing me to kvetch on this thread! We are really very fine now. We are happily in bed at the Hampton Inn, a 15 minute trip from our house. Our room is toasty warm and they have free tea, coffee and hot chocolate 24/7 in the lobby. We have free internet and free breakfast and had a nice dinner of fried clams at Legal Seafood. I've called some tree guys and they can probably save 3 of the 4 trees. One is down and out...I'd rather have spent the money on some new shoes or a new iPhone, but worse things can be wrong with one's life. Frank and Wendy, glad you are back in Australia...one of these days, we'll get so fed up, we may hop a plane and show up on your doorstep....(not really, we always call first!!) We're lucky to have you folks as friends and truly live a blessed life albeit we wish ConEd would get its act together and get our electricity up!