Greetings from the non-storm.
Sep. 18th, 2003 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaToday is normally a day that I drive down to Cheverly, a suburb of DC, to see clients at the Prince George's County Health Department. Game called on account of hurricane - or at least, on Tuesday, I was expecting a hurricane today. When I called yesterday to cancel my clients (not that I had many scheduled), they were relieved.
As of yesterday, we had been downgraded to a tropical storm warning. I thought about changing my plans and going down to the clinic, but allowed myself to be talked out of it. Today's a work-at-home day, although not much work is actually being done. I only feel slightly guilty. I probably could've made it safely to the clinic and safely home, but whatever.
It's chilly and windy. For the last hour or so, it's been raining steadily. Not much else is happening.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
curiousangel argued this morning that we should take out the two precariously-established air conditioners we have on the third floor, with their jury-rigged surrounds, so that they didn't crash from the window and kill someone on the street below. I found his argument persuasive, so we did it. No other storm activities so far. I saw in the paper that the city's opened up four storm shelters, which are presumably for homeless people and folks in low-lying (floodable) areas. They're saying we might get flooding downtown. I sincerely hope that my office doesn't flood and destroy everything filed in floor-level cabinets. I think it's a little bit uphill from the nearest finger of the harbor, but I guess you never know. We live on high ground, so there's unlikely to be exciting flood action at home.
Now we wait, and are slightly bored.
As of yesterday, we had been downgraded to a tropical storm warning. I thought about changing my plans and going down to the clinic, but allowed myself to be talked out of it. Today's a work-at-home day, although not much work is actually being done. I only feel slightly guilty. I probably could've made it safely to the clinic and safely home, but whatever.
It's chilly and windy. For the last hour or so, it's been raining steadily. Not much else is happening.
curiousangel argued this morning that we should take out the two precariously-established air conditioners we have on the third floor, with their jury-rigged surrounds, so that they didn't crash from the window and kill someone on the street below. I found his argument persuasive, so we did it. No other storm activities so far. I saw in the paper that the city's opened up four storm shelters, which are presumably for homeless people and folks in low-lying (floodable) areas. They're saying we might get flooding downtown. I sincerely hope that my office doesn't flood and destroy everything filed in floor-level cabinets. I think it's a little bit uphill from the nearest finger of the harbor, but I guess you never know. We live on high ground, so there's unlikely to be exciting flood action at home.Now we wait, and are slightly bored.
