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23 July 2007
Is everybunny okay? I don't know which bunnies are in the UK, except for that nice-looking group who had fun in Glastonbunny. British bunnies, please reassure us that you're okay, and dry. Other bunnies are welcome to reassure, as well.
Yeah, it's still fecking raining. It started again where I live at about 2pm and it hasn't stopped since. Luckily I don't live anywhere that gets flooded so I'm okay. I just wish it would stop raining - I want to take my niece to the beach for the first time this week but it's looking like it just won't be possible. Crappy hemisphere.
And feeling a little bit bashful about the comments I made last week about these things only making news if they happen in the south. The troubles they're having in Gloucestershire seem much, much worse than what happened a month ago is Sheffield. I can't believe that over 1/4 of a million people are going to be without running water for over a week.
So yeah - sorry about that.
Esp. chuckdarwin. Who's quite close to the devastation.
What's been interesting for me is that despite living a 20 minute walk from the Thames, my house is right on what would have been the bank of a lost river, the Falconbrook (1, ≡ Click to see image ≡). So quite a few shops on the main road that now sits on top of it have been flooded. Still, nothing to compare with the rest of the country - I hope anyone here from round Gloucestershire way is okay.
a woman apparently drowned in her car on the road.
That used to happen every few years down where the Little Patuxent River hits Rt. 29 at the old entrance to Columbia, going past the dinner theater and the county library. Central Maryland's surprisingly prolific when it comes to deadly floods.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
