Funny 'bout that groundhog. We'd just come out of a major storm and a couple of sun's rays broke through raggedly between heavy overcast that morning all along the broad front here and up through Punxy.
Three seconds after "casting" a shadow through a raffle of drunks and Kleig lights the storm came rolling back in. The fix was in.
Joe, no gen. (Yet) but am considering getting something to at least keep the furnace motor and controls running, maybe a TV and refrig. Too. Can alternate fridge with microwave, heh, heh. Some of the neighbors have perm. gen sets anticipating our further slide into the third world and wx conditions reverting to the more normal of the 1950's thru '70's.
Today's SUV, hVAC hot house tomato crowd have no idea why New England homes had nested sets of sheds and barns trailing behind the house, such houses built in hollows instead of "look at me" locations as far up hill as stilts allow.
. Good for radio, but bad for wx. Well, true hams had shacks on the hill and lived further down, doncha know.
Say did'ja see the Delta plane which slid to end of runway today? "Just plowed" and "another plane just landed ok" don't anticipate sudden cooling and icing brought about by the freshly plowed snow exposing wet surface now exposed to suffer freezing aided by blowing air of landing planes, among other things. --Um, winter.