STORM – We had a really nasty storm blow through here yesterday afternoon. Very high winds and tornado conditions. Just around the time I usually leave work to go home they called a “Code Black Level 2” at work, which apparently means Shelter in place, so I decided to stay at work. Our department is in the basement, so it’s pretty safe from storms. I watched the weather map on my phone until the conditions improved quite a bit, when we were only getting torrential rain and a little lightning, then I left work.
My card was blowing around on the road a bit, but nothing too bad. The rain was pretty constant and pounding for the entire drive home though, and we now have a few small 3’x3′ “swimming pools” in front of out house… The street or sewer crews have been working in front of our house for the past week tearing up parts of the street and several crosswalk squares right out front, so there are huge open holes that completely filled and oversflowed with rain water yesterday. It looked a little amusing.
When I got home I backed Kevin’s car and my car into our driveway just so neither of us forgets the huge hole right in our driveway where there’s a missing 3’x3′ sidewalk square. There is a large red traffic cone in front of it, but we might have missed that on our backup cameras if we didn’t remember, so I backed our cars in to make it obvious. We have to drive on the grass and up and down our curb right now just to get in and out of our driveway.
RIOT – There was apparently a riot on the Magnificent Mile in downtown Chicago the other day–apparently fueled by the shooting of a black man in Chicago on Sunday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/10/chicago-looters-riot-magnificent-mile
It’s really sad that our society appears to be collapsing. Everything’s going to shit. Everyone’s taking everything to the extreme, everything is very sensitive, partisan politics is causing everyone to take a side for everything, including ridiculous things like “the right to not wear a mask” in public. They can’t just set a country-wide law requiring absolutely everyone to where a mask in public? Because we have the right to spread COVID-19 all we want and kill hundreds of thousands of people? That’s our right because we’re free? Come on, it’s temporary. Only until there’s a vaccine, THEN we can start to return society to normal. But no, people can’t handle the isolation, businesses will die. So now we keep the businesses alive but hundreds of thousands of PEOPLE die instead. Seriously. This shit is seriously depressing. Here’s the dashboard in case you haven’t looked lately: https://ncov2019.live/. I added it to my links list on this site too–under Health & Fitness. Our totals just keep rising and rising while every other country’s numbers go up by very little or nothing.
But have a great day anyway! Sorry if I brought you down.
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