As a result,
Power never came back up, so we chatted and swapped stories. Power was still out when I left this morning, but I'm not too worried - if the cat can't watch her stories on TV during the day, she'll just have to read a book instead. She'll probably be pretty mad about the electric blanket not working (which she has actually figured out how to turn on, by stepping on the control). And that was my blackout in Venice.