Ice

I was just about to say something brilliant when a pair of limbs came crashing out of the 80-year-old maple, miraculously missing the power line but taking out our cable/internet/telephone. Then we sat around waiting for the power to go out (while watching a DVD and sorting old photographs), which, to our amazement, it never did. Even more amazing: Time Warner, the hardest working utility in show business, had a guy here to repair our line in less than an hour and a half. I honestly thought it would be days, with all the wires down all over the place. So other than missing our planned ski day and being left with several hundred pounds of wood to clear from the neighbor's yard, we got off clean from the ice storm.