Last Sunday night was the highlight of my weekend – we had heat. Like many of my neighbors here in Pennsylvania, the nor’easter named Riley knocked out electricity from Friday until Sunday. No electricity also meant no heat, no TV and no internet. My friends on LBI kept their eyes on the rising tide from the pounding surf and the damage was minimal. Heaven knows they had more than paid their dues from the destruction caused by that madwoman, Sandy.

My cellphone worked during the outage, but my husband gave me “strong looks of encouragement” not to check Facebook…