28 June 2006

The sun is out! The clouds have parted! There's blue sky! Everything is slowly but surely drying out after our deluge of rain. 11+" since Saturday night. The weather folks said it was a one in every 300 year event. (God, I HOPE it is!)



I drove to work today with the top down on my car, just to dry it out. (Oh yes, the convertible top leaks like a sieve!) We avoided any major water damage to the house, so I'm VERY grateful. There are TONS of horror stories about there, too. Really sad. Anyway, looking forward to everything getting back to normal. (I'm even excited about moving our -- now TOTALLY overgrown -- lawn!)

The affects of the storms are still with us, unfortunately--the rivers are all cresting (including the Potomac) and areas like Alexandria and Georgetown are vulnerable to flooding. They had to evacuate folks from a section of Rockville, Maryland--about 3 miles north of us --because a dam on a nearby lake was about to bust open. (The lake is about 25 FEET above normal.) Keep your fingers crossed.

Aerial of Lake Needwood:




P.S. The website DCRTV had a fun write-up about how the flooding impacted some of one of the local TV stations here...

"4's Water Woes - 6/28 - With the heavy rain of late, DCRTV hears about how some serious water got into the basement at Channel 4/WRC killing the power and the backup generator. The Nebraska Avenue NBC station was off the air for about 30 minutes Monday evening before, slowly, the power was restored. No newsroom computer system, no rundown for the 11 PM news, no prompters. Two out of three cameras power supplies were blown, the 11 PM newscast was started with one camera, that's why there was lots of "zooming" going on. Jim Vance explained the situation at the top of the show, and eventually the weather camera came back. All of the cameras were OK as of the AM shows Tuesday, but the backup generator system is still down, awaiting parts....."