Anyone have blueprints for an ark?

[resqgeek]

I'm wet. Well, actually, I'm now approaching merely damp, but I was dripping wet when I arrived at the office a couple of hours ago. The torrential rains continue intermittently, and a heavy downpour started just as I left the house to catch my bus this morning. By the time I reached the bus stop, I was thoroughly drenched (and that was with an umbrella). Thankfully, I only had to cross about 15 feet of open space from the bus to reach shelter at the office, but the damage was done. I'm sitting in my office barefoot, hoping my shoes and socks will actually dry sometime before I have to go home.

The newspaper reports that we got another four inches of rain yesterday, which gives us a total of nine inches in the past two days and more than 12 inches since Friday. They're expecting the Potomac River to start reaching flood stage in places today. Today's forecast is a photocopy of yesterday's, so there's no relief coming soon.

My route from the house to my bus stop takes me underneath a set of train tracks. Yesterday evening, as I walked home, I noticed that one of the embankments had washed out, and that the water had undercut the rail bed. There was a large hollow that stretched a couple of feet underneath the actual tracks. I guess that explains why all rail service south of DC was canceled yesterday. This morning I brought my camera to take a picture of the damage, but when I got there I noted that the hollow had been filled with gravel overnight. It looked like a temporary patch job and I expect that when it stops raining they'll be out in force to effect more permanent repairs.

Comments

[cryingbaby.livejournal.com]

It's crazy how much rain we're having. It was a river in our street/parking lot yesterday and mmy husband said it's a lake on the street on the way to work and they closed it off.

[loopy1.livejournal.com]

We've got the opposite problem in southern England. I think you've got all our rain! We've got drought orders and hosepipe bans in place. Mind you, we have had the occasional heavy rain, but nothing like we actually need.

So give us some of your rain, and we'll all be happy ;-)

[resqgeek]

If only I knew how...

[avanta7.livejournal.com]

Remember the Bill Cosby routine? God gives Noah the instructions to build the ark: "Make it 40 cubits tall, 120 cubits long and 60 cubits tall [or whatever the dimensions were -- I'm not inclined to hunt up the Genesis story at the moment]" and Moses' response is, "Right....what's a cubit?"

Got hip boots?

[resqgeek]

Today's focus has shifted to the Maryland suburbs. A man-made lake along Rock Creek in Montgomery County is threatening to break its dam, and they've evacuated hundreds of homes and a number of apartment complexes as a precaution. Looks like the worst of the rain is gone, but we still have a risk of some heavy thunderstorms this evening.

[avanta7.livejournal.com]

Wide. That's 60 cubits wide.
Or whatever.
*sigh*