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Around 4:30 we were unexpectedly treated to a heavy, thick snowfall. Now it's 9:30 and the power is out - and bushes that had complained under 18 inches of gradually accumulating snow are falling over inder 3 inches of heavy sudden wet snow.

How do I know for sure? All the power has gone out.

Posting to you via the miracle of laptop batteries and a UPS on the modem chain.