Home again, home again...
Well, I got up, dressed, and went to work only to find limited power - a brown out, blinking lights, and a very eerie library...and then no power. We got word on the large scale to close and go home by 10. I guess the transformer blew and the battery backups are depleted --and it will take the day (at the very least) to recover even electric, let alone IT functions. Whew.
My husband and I were out playing during the storms, in the rain yesterday. The hail came first...then rain...and this became the cycle for the two hours of deluge. Tornado warnings, lightning, flash floods...we had 11 inches in my area of town, they say. As we were leaving a grocery store parking lot we saw people in a car just swirl into an intersection near the Walgreen. A wading man helped the lady open her door and the water swept into the car. We wove our way home, taking the higher streets everywhere we could. Swamped and stalled cars, choked storm drains, newly formed lakes with shorelines among houses, waves lapping at door stoops, and riverbeds as deep as floorboards where roads should be. Dodging asphalt and debris, we got home to our little house on a hill. Wow.
With a sudden afternoon off, I think I will go out and seize the day.
My husband and I were out playing during the storms, in the rain yesterday. The hail came first...then rain...and this became the cycle for the two hours of deluge. Tornado warnings, lightning, flash floods...we had 11 inches in my area of town, they say. As we were leaving a grocery store parking lot we saw people in a car just swirl into an intersection near the Walgreen. A wading man helped the lady open her door and the water swept into the car. We wove our way home, taking the higher streets everywhere we could. Swamped and stalled cars, choked storm drains, newly formed lakes with shorelines among houses, waves lapping at door stoops, and riverbeds as deep as floorboards where roads should be. Dodging asphalt and debris, we got home to our little house on a hill. Wow.
With a sudden afternoon off, I think I will go out and seize the day.
posted by artcat | 1:11 PM
4 Comments:
Wow! How dramatic, and how good that you live on the crest of your hill.
By all means, you should be carpe-ing (and I'm not even going to make any fish jokes)!
Odd, we barely had any rain here (or at home). Must've headed north, or south.
It was swirling north I think? Heard Dklb county and then funnel over CV mall and then north to Rkton. News footage shows houses collapsing today because of basement walls caving. Amy OK? RC still has no email so I can't see there... and I don't think she knows my site here.
I talked to my mom last night -- she said that she nearly got swamped down on Charles street, but was coming up the hill as the worst of it hit, but watched cars FLOATING through at Charles and 20th. Then, as she pulled into her driveway, she heard the radio beep and got news that a funnel had been spotted "by the airport", which is a mile from her house. So she spent a good while in the basement, arguing with my Uncle Mark as to why he should or shouldn't have to be in the basement. *grins*
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