<Jedi's town> just got slammed with crazy amounts of rain. Official tally for Round 1 of storms was 5-7 inches of rain. Half the city is flooded. I was wading through knee-deep water on my way to work this morning. The library has about 4 ft of water in the basement. That happens to be where books are stored while they are waiting to either be shipped to other branches, or enter circulation. The director estimates tens of thousands of books have been ruined as well as the computer network system that controls every branch of the library. So, no computer access whatsoever for the next 2-3 days, possibly more. So I've got a few unexpected days off--really the only silver lining in this storm cloud since my copy of Omen was most likely among the ruined books. Me not happy.
And thanks to the water getting dangerously involved with the electrical systems, I spent most of my grand hour and a half at work on the first floor not touching anyting and waiting for the rain to let up enough so we could kick the patrons out and let the electric company cut the power. It has not been a fun day as several of my coworkers have lost vehicles to the flooding, and we're expecting another round of severe storms this afternoon.
And thanks to the water getting dangerously involved with the electrical systems, I spent most of my grand hour and a half at work on the first floor not touching anyting and waiting for the rain to let up enough so we could kick the patrons out and let the electric company cut the power. It has not been a fun day as several of my coworkers have lost vehicles to the flooding, and we're expecting another round of severe storms this afternoon.
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