frankielynnsie..I'm sorry to hear about the mess in your area from severe weather..my worst power outage was 5 hours..it seemed much longer!..several days would indeed be terrible..I hope things return to normal quickly..

That sounds like a scary storm! Hope you are OK and that your power will be back on soon. This certainly is not a normal year!

Last night a front with wind gusts came through and the pine tree used by the red bellied woodpeckers for nesting came down with a big boom around 1AM. I will miss watching them feeding their babies next spring. The babies would practically climb out of the nest to get to the food their parents brought. Luckily it missed landing on my muscadine vine trellis.

We got our power back in the night so they got it on before they thought but our neighbors across the road are still without power.

The good news was that my yankee hummingbird was not blown away. He came to eat yesterday and today. He will continue his journey soon and I will miss him.

We have a camping generator--2000 watt that we use for camping and when the power goes out (wind storms, ice storms), which happens frequently. It is marvelous! Enough to run the refrigerator, a light, my computer and modem, and the tv.

Glad to hear some good news. Too bad about the pine tree. I would miss seeing baby woodpeckers too. What a shame.

We have a generator too. They are great for those times when you need it (which isn't that often, thankfully). I remember it to be very noisy though so we strived to not have it run after 9 p.m. and until morning.

Sorry

about the mess and the pine tree. Enjoy your hummingbird