August 02, 2004
Power outages
No bloggage today. I'm catching up on work, and I've got a lot to catch up on at home tonight, since our power was out all day yesterday. You may have heard of the torrential thunderstorms that hit Philadelphia, and let me tell you - the news stories weren't exaggerated. I was bolted out of bed at 7 am by thunder so loud it set off car alarms on our street. An hour later, the power went off; another hour later, and the main street in my neighborhood was under six feet of water, while employees had to swim out of a McDonald's about a mile away from me. A lot of businesses have closed down because the buildings were flooded and completed ruined. Our house is fine so far (thank heavens we live uphill from where everything was really bad), but it's been such a wet summer that we already had one leak in our roof.
Yeeks. Send dry thoughts, please.
(All of the photos below are businesses that are within walking distance, two blocks or so, of our house. My boyfriend and I don't know what we're going to do without our WaWa!)
