These are scenes of power crews trying to replace some broken telephone poles near the intersection of Bardstown Road and Eastern Parkway in Louisville, Kentucky.  Almost 200,000 people lost power in the city late Tuesday night.  I live three blocks from the scene of this video; we were one of the lucky ones.  We were without power for about 25 hours, and thus spent only one night in the cold.  I must admit that the sheets were pretty crunchy.

One of my old neighbors in the Louisville suburb of Jeffersontown was not so fortunate.  A tree took out a transformer behind his house, which shorted a high-voltage line into his house.  It completely blew out the breaker box (which is now a smoldering mess of burnt plastic).  The current wasn't done yet - it still needed a place to go, so it got into the house's earth ground ,which is tied to the water main.  That blew the pipes, and now the poor guy also has a frozen water fountain in his front yard.  Not to mention that there's a tree on his roof...