I have many irrational fears, but one of the most frequent is that a tree will fall on the house and crush me to death while I sleep. Yesterday morning, I awoke to the sound of a tree falling and immediately rolled out of bed to the floor. My bed sits at least 3 feet off the ground, not my best reaction. One of the big branches fell off one of the trees in the backyard into the power lines knocking the power out to the house. Thank God the dogs were at the pet hotel. So I called the electric company and went back to bed. I awoke several hours later to another loud tree sound, jumped out of bed and saw a neighbors tree lying across the road. I decided to get up, if I am going to be crushed, I want to be awake when it happens. Being without power is not awful, but it is when you have laundry to do and are leaving for a trip later that day. The power never came back on so I guess I will just have to have the hotel do my laundry.