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Aug. 23rd, 2007 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Hoo boy! We have really gotten a pounding today. It was overcast this morning, cleared up early in the afternoon, and I was starting to think I'd get to that outdoor concert after all. Then the skies got darker, the phone on my desk beeped, and the PA announced that we all had to head for the nearest stairwell and go to the basement. Not a tornado, but severe weather. I grabbed my purse and a book, but the last turned out to be pointless as, shortly after we got downstairs, the power went out. About forty-five minutes later, we were allowed to go upstairs, get our things and leave. The power was still out.
The winds were bad. Tree limbs all over, traffic signals out. Listening to the traffic reports, I felt I didn't have it so bad, as there were no jack-knifed semis on my route, nor any reports of "roof in the road". Slow-going though. The weatherman says another line of storms is coming. At home now, the sky to the south is blue behind the clouds, but to the north it's very dark. So I have decided not to try for the concert.
Casa Italiana is having two classes in culinary Italian. I went to the first last night, and told Marco I'd come tonight "if it rained" (thereby necessitating missing the concert). However, I'm not going there, either. Not with that "roof in the road"! I'm staying home with the cats.
Tomorrow -- they're saying more of the same.
The winds were bad. Tree limbs all over, traffic signals out. Listening to the traffic reports, I felt I didn't have it so bad, as there were no jack-knifed semis on my route, nor any reports of "roof in the road". Slow-going though. The weatherman says another line of storms is coming. At home now, the sky to the south is blue behind the clouds, but to the north it's very dark. So I have decided not to try for the concert.
Casa Italiana is having two classes in culinary Italian. I went to the first last night, and told Marco I'd come tonight "if it rained" (thereby necessitating missing the concert). However, I'm not going there, either. Not with that "roof in the road"! I'm staying home with the cats.
Tomorrow -- they're saying more of the same.
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Date: 2007-08-24 03:25 am (UTC)Glad you're all right...
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Date: 2007-08-24 08:31 am (UTC)Hate to show such ignorance but will you please explain the meaning and/or origin of the expression "roof in the road". Certainly sounds really dramatic.
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Date: 2007-08-24 04:37 pm (UTC)When the lights went out, people started pulling out their cellphones for light!