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Damn, I hate this weather sometimes.
Sep. 15th, 2008 01:02 pmI had to skip work yesterday. But I had a pretty good excuse to skip out on it yesterday, though.
My street was totally underwater.
You couldn't walk outside. The water would come in.
With a cameraphone in hand I called my job to let them know that I was STUCK. As it turned out, it was slow enough that they wouldn't be needing my services that day, anyway. It was just as well, though. It took until about three in the afternoon for the water to go down far enough to take three steps out of the door.
Seriously? I'm surprised that the drainage in the area worked as well as it did. There were times where it was coming down so hard that the street was under eight inches of water (fast moving water, at that) and so it was impossible to do anything at all. It had been called for in the forecast, of course: we were getting hit with what was left of Tropical Storm Ike (It wasn't downgraded for a good long while, either; not until it left our area) and it was moving damned quick.
All in all it made for a decently boring sort of day. No one went anywhere until the roads drained off, and as I said that took until three. Even then all we did was go grocery shopping. I made a point of getting enough 'fast junk' so that I should be covered until next payday.
Granted, it's still a meal a day, two if I'm lucky. But hey, until I adjust, I just have to deal with it.
My street was totally underwater.
You couldn't walk outside. The water would come in.
With a cameraphone in hand I called my job to let them know that I was STUCK. As it turned out, it was slow enough that they wouldn't be needing my services that day, anyway. It was just as well, though. It took until about three in the afternoon for the water to go down far enough to take three steps out of the door.
Seriously? I'm surprised that the drainage in the area worked as well as it did. There were times where it was coming down so hard that the street was under eight inches of water (fast moving water, at that) and so it was impossible to do anything at all. It had been called for in the forecast, of course: we were getting hit with what was left of Tropical Storm Ike (It wasn't downgraded for a good long while, either; not until it left our area) and it was moving damned quick.
All in all it made for a decently boring sort of day. No one went anywhere until the roads drained off, and as I said that took until three. Even then all we did was go grocery shopping. I made a point of getting enough 'fast junk' so that I should be covered until next payday.
Granted, it's still a meal a day, two if I'm lucky. But hey, until I adjust, I just have to deal with it.
