Fingers crossed for you up here! We lose power all the time up here since we're on the Canadian shield and can't bury power lines. I can almost hook the generator up by myself - I can plug it in and make it start - but I can't throw the main breaker on the house! How wimpy am I? So I sit in the cold and the dark with my little laptop until the batteries run out, and hope for the power to come on or Ian to come home.