Not much of a hurricane
Thankfully.
I spent most of yesterday inside curled up in a chair with a mug of tea and my Kindle. Tea lights were set around my room and I had my oil burner lit keeping my room with a bit of light in case the electricity flickered off. But besides a lot of thunderous rain and a bit of wind howling about, coming and going, and reappearing and disappearing with no pattern, there was not much to report. It seems that D.C. didn't have much problem with Hurricane Irene.
With that said, I do recall sitting in my chair looking outside at such weather that I have never been accustomed to thinking how much I prefer earthquakes to this.... waiting period. Not knowing what will happen and if anything will happen - will it get worse? better? Taper off or start pounding down with a fury? I can be an impatient person. It's part of my negative aspects that I need to work on. But this is also why I prefer earthquakes, especially considering the fact that we had both this week: an earthquake and a hurricane warning.
Earthquakes come with little warning but tend to be over (relatively) quickly depending on the magnitude. Yeah, things might need to be cleaned up a bit afterwards but... that's afterwards. There's no waiting period of uncertainty. It's that uncertainty that I don't like. Luckily, there wasn't much uncertainty for here in D.C. - New York was another story - but D.C. ended up being fine. I can't honestly say that I really prepared for it - at all - but it looks like I didn't need to. Thankfully.
And so here I am Sunday night with my weekend gone so quickly into the sands of time. I was hoping to make a quick stop up in Baltimore to visit one of my L.A. friends who happened to be up for a wedding (eh, what a horrible weekend for a wedding, bad luck!) but with the uncertainty for public transportation - who knew what Amtrack would be doing - I decided against it. Hopefully we can meet up in a couple of weeks when I'm back home in L.A. but he's one of my Das Bunker buddies and with Bunker being closed the one and only Friday that I'll be in town I'm not sure if that will even happen anymore. Plans are a bit fluid for my L.A. trip now and I'm still not sure what I'll even be doing - or when I'll head up to L.A. from my parents' place now.
So... I dunno. Things are doing ok, not bad, not amazing, but a pretty solid ok. I guess that's not much to complain about, right?
I spent most of yesterday inside curled up in a chair with a mug of tea and my Kindle. Tea lights were set around my room and I had my oil burner lit keeping my room with a bit of light in case the electricity flickered off. But besides a lot of thunderous rain and a bit of wind howling about, coming and going, and reappearing and disappearing with no pattern, there was not much to report. It seems that D.C. didn't have much problem with Hurricane Irene.
With that said, I do recall sitting in my chair looking outside at such weather that I have never been accustomed to thinking how much I prefer earthquakes to this.... waiting period. Not knowing what will happen and if anything will happen - will it get worse? better? Taper off or start pounding down with a fury? I can be an impatient person. It's part of my negative aspects that I need to work on. But this is also why I prefer earthquakes, especially considering the fact that we had both this week: an earthquake and a hurricane warning.
Earthquakes come with little warning but tend to be over (relatively) quickly depending on the magnitude. Yeah, things might need to be cleaned up a bit afterwards but... that's afterwards. There's no waiting period of uncertainty. It's that uncertainty that I don't like. Luckily, there wasn't much uncertainty for here in D.C. - New York was another story - but D.C. ended up being fine. I can't honestly say that I really prepared for it - at all - but it looks like I didn't need to. Thankfully.
And so here I am Sunday night with my weekend gone so quickly into the sands of time. I was hoping to make a quick stop up in Baltimore to visit one of my L.A. friends who happened to be up for a wedding (eh, what a horrible weekend for a wedding, bad luck!) but with the uncertainty for public transportation - who knew what Amtrack would be doing - I decided against it. Hopefully we can meet up in a couple of weeks when I'm back home in L.A. but he's one of my Das Bunker buddies and with Bunker being closed the one and only Friday that I'll be in town I'm not sure if that will even happen anymore. Plans are a bit fluid for my L.A. trip now and I'm still not sure what I'll even be doing - or when I'll head up to L.A. from my parents' place now.
So... I dunno. Things are doing ok, not bad, not amazing, but a pretty solid ok. I guess that's not much to complain about, right?