It's sunny but only 64 with a chilly stiff breeze. It goes down into the 40s at night here.
Good luck with your heater, Heidi. I had my PT session and am taking it easy for a bit. I'm headed to the laundromat after dinner. My sister is driving up tomorrow.

After hurricane Sandy there were trees and tree limbs down around town. Some family up the hill from us had their tree crash into their garage and total their SUV. It took a couple of months for them to get a replacement garage built. For days afterwards you would hear the constant sound of chainsaws and wood chippers as everything got cleaned up.

When we had no power the town opened up the nearby recreation center, which was on a different power grid, on the main street where the power lines were below ground. It was a place to go to hang out in warmth, watch some TV and relax, recharge cell phone and laptop batteries and have some hot food, donuts from Dunkin and hot and cold beverages. We used to have dinner there. When it shut down each evening the firemen would start driving the fire trucks down the local streets with their bright lights on as people walked home. The family who owned a laundromat there in those days kept it open late so people could sit and watch TV as their washed clothes and be warm for a while longer. I actually saw part of the hurricane Sandy fundraising rock concert on TV that was put together by Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi while doing the laundry.

There are rescue and repair crews from my area who have been down south for two weeks now. Mutual aid between all the eastern states who get clobbered by hurricanes. It's possible your power grid was repaired by a utility crew from somewhere other than Georgia.

Our electrical substation is along the river and was destroyed by the storm surge during Sandy. It was a utility crew from one of the Florida electric companies who completely rebuild it. Meanwhile assorted crews had to repair broken wires and blown transformers. Near the supermarket where I do most of my grocery shopping a lot of the wooden utility poles were bent and they all had to be replaced. And we were lucky compared to what happened down the shore areas. It took us months to have everything normal again. But at the shore it took more than five years. That's like the nightmare western North Carolina is going through. My sister who lives in Virginia had been to Asheville NC and said it was a beautiful place.