Stormy Weather

If you're a writer who depends on electricity and especially on a computer of some sort, what do you do when the weather gets impossible, as it has been lately in the midsection of the US? Do you

• Risk life, limb and hard drive by typing during thunderstorms?
  
• Write in longhand?
  
• Use an old-fashioned manual typewriter (which, incidentally, is usually made of metal and could also conceivably draw lightning)?
  
• Decide that since it's storming, you should do something else, like curl up with a good book?
  

I've been facing that a lot lately. Spring has arrived, and with it, masses of unsettled weather. So far, I've still managed to work on a manuscript, but only when it isn't storming. When it is, I've

• Taken notes in longhand on a future novel
  
• Sorted laundry
  
• Gone through a lot of my To Be Read pile
  
• Cleaned out drawers and sorted clothes
  

I could go on, but I hear thunder....