We lost power here in Shelton CT from Monday until late Friday afternoon ... I was lucky enough to get a room at the Hampton Inn for 3 days and four nights so I could take hot showers and watch some TV in the interim
When the power came back on Friday evening I noticed all the street lights traffic lights and store signs were shinning much brighter apparently due to all the new transformers, cabling, and fresh connections
My stereo is off line until after the holidays but the colors on my plasma has a lot more pop and vividness
Then yesterday we were hit with the Northeaster ... got 8 inches of snow and my wife Gloria was staring through the kitchen window for over 4 hours straight ... finally I decided with conditions worsening ... I better let her back in the house (;-)