The Cost of Ernesto

Good thing it wasn't actually a hurricane. Our costs so far are:
$120 to replace almost every surge protector in the house (they all fried when the power shorted),
$60 to fix my computer (fried power supply),
$400 to fix the stove and washing machine ( both had fried circuit boards),
$350 to remove every freakin' tree anywhere in the vicinity of the power lines, and
$700 to buy a generator (which we've used a total of about 10 hours so far).

That doesn't include gas for the generator, 3 weeks of doing laundry at the wash-o-mat, many meals eaten out since the stove has been only partially good, and so forth.

And there's still the small matter of a roof leak, which causes drips on the lower floor of the house (in my office), from around an upper story window dormer. The house was reroofed following Isabel, but I've already had the guy back once to fix another leak. (Crappy flashing job)