We’re into our third day without power at Chateau Steelypips, and as a result, the household has temporarily been relocated to a hotel near SUNY Albany. National Grid says probably Tuesday, but they really don’t know when they’ll get our electricity back.<\/p>\n
This is, of course, deeply annoying, but it feels sort of churlish to complain too much, given how much worse it could be. After all, the only physical damage thus far has been the destruction of our back yard gate by a falling limb. That’s not even worth a homeowner’s insurance claim.<\/p>\n
We’re also luck to be in a position where we can afford to relocate to a hotel. The cost of the room is irritating, but not debilitating– it’s not a completely trivial amount of money, but it’s not putting us in any real jeopardy. Meanwhile, almost 300 people spent last night in Red Cross shelters. And two people died<\/a> from carbon monoxide poisoning.<\/p>\n So, it could be a whole lot worse, and in fact it is<\/strong> a whole lot worse for a lot of other people in our area. If the worst part of this ice storm is having to deal with the wireless connection on my tablet in the hotel, we’ve really got nothing to complain about.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (The wireless thing is pretty damn annoying, though…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re into our third day without power at Chateau Steelypips, and as a result, the household has temporarily been relocated to a hotel near SUNY Albany. National Grid says probably Tuesday, but they really don’t know when they’ll get our electricity back. This is, of course, deeply annoying, but it feels sort of churlish to… Continue reading Ice Storms and Liberal Guilt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}