Okay, it's true that the recent wind storm called a 'dehrico' that struck the east coast of the US was an unusual event. But there seem to have been a lot of 'unusual' weather events lately.
We were heavily impacted by the October snowstorm of 2011 that struck with leaves still on the trees dragging down a lot of trees and branches leaving us without power for 5 days. And were without power on three other occasions in 2011 for a total of 12 days, and so far we are up to 2 events here on my own homestead so far in 2012 totaling about 7 hours.