AF, I hear you on the generator/firewood! We experience quite a bit of power outages here and we've had some dandy ice storms, the worst in 1996, last winter I think our longest period at the house without electricity was 6 days. We pretty muchneed to have a generator here and firewood, stoves etc comes in very handy! I burn about 10-12 cord a year at my place.

How will your storm affect your wildlife?
Ice storm here in 96 killed massive amounts of elk and deer too.. Shed hunters found herds of elk dead in the spring where the snow had gotten so deep they couldnt get out, they died starving to death in the remote backwoods of Idaho.

Good luck to you guys out there, I hope this all passes soon. I've been keep an eye on it on the news.