Interesting 24 hours here in the DC region. Last night I went to see Radiohead at Nissan Pavilion out in the suburbs of Virginia. Unfortunately, I had lawn seats. And unfortunately, it started raining almost an inch an hour right before I got there. My jeans were completely soaked before I even hit the gate, and I'm standing there feeling my shoes sink into the mud during the show. The show was excellent, but the wife had me leave early (midway through the first encore) because she was freezing and soaked. I missed the first US performance of Fake Plastic Trees this tour. 
The total amount of rain in that area between 6pm and Midnight was 3.5 inches. Most of which dropped on us.
We get to the car, and this is no exaggeration: I didn't move further than 30 feet from my parking space for more than 2 hours and 15 minutes. Nissan's on this piddly little country road with no convenient detours, and there was some flooding and signal problems, and those county cops couldn't figure out how to get us out of there. The way out took awhile, then I had a scary drive home late night along the Capital Beltway, where the new pavement around the Wilson Bridge/Potomac River is a mix that gets super shiny in heavy rain, the reflectors weren't installed yet, and I couldn't tell what lane I was in. This all meant it took me literally four hours to get home, when it should have taken no more than 1. Time of arrival: 2:50am.
Today, I drag my groggy self out of bed to go interview 4 prospective firms who will be working on a project I'm going to lead. We get about halfway through firm one when we are told that they are EVACUATING the county seat. It's this historic little port town on a branch of the Patuxent River that's surrounded by water on three sides, and two of those were flooded out.
We have a pond in front of the main county administration building. It surged over the separation bank for the first time in at least 30 years today, and they think it's going to flood out the first floor of the county building. Most of the upstream surge hasn't even hit the area yet.
I sort of hope it keeps raining so I don't have to work tomorrow.
-Rand
The total amount of rain in that area between 6pm and Midnight was 3.5 inches. Most of which dropped on us.We get to the car, and this is no exaggeration: I didn't move further than 30 feet from my parking space for more than 2 hours and 15 minutes. Nissan's on this piddly little country road with no convenient detours, and there was some flooding and signal problems, and those county cops couldn't figure out how to get us out of there. The way out took awhile, then I had a scary drive home late night along the Capital Beltway, where the new pavement around the Wilson Bridge/Potomac River is a mix that gets super shiny in heavy rain, the reflectors weren't installed yet, and I couldn't tell what lane I was in. This all meant it took me literally four hours to get home, when it should have taken no more than 1. Time of arrival: 2:50am.
Today, I drag my groggy self out of bed to go interview 4 prospective firms who will be working on a project I'm going to lead. We get about halfway through firm one when we are told that they are EVACUATING the county seat. It's this historic little port town on a branch of the Patuxent River that's surrounded by water on three sides, and two of those were flooded out.
We have a pond in front of the main county administration building. It surged over the separation bank for the first time in at least 30 years today, and they think it's going to flood out the first floor of the county building. Most of the upstream surge hasn't even hit the area yet.
I sort of hope it keeps raining so I don't have to work tomorrow.
-Rand
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