A glitch in the merge window

On January 13, Linus Torvalds let
it be known that he had lost power due to the bad weather in the US
Pacific Northwest. As of this writing, he has not yet resurfaced, so the
6.8 merge window has ground to a halt.

There's apparently about 100k people without power, and I doubt our
neighborhood is the priority, so I expect to be without power for
some time still. I hope I'm wrong, but a few years ago it took more
than a week to restore power due to all the downed trees. It's
hopefully nowhere near that, but..