Batten down the hatches

On the way home from work, I had the extremely dubious pleasure of experiencing the worst rain I have ever seen in the fifteen-some-odd years I have lived in the Seattle area. Hands down. It was insane. Heavy, hard-blowing, horizontal rain that drenched me from the waist down as soon as I left the Times building. And this was only the side show--the winds were picking up already, but not yet strong enough that my umbrella was entirely useless.

Still, my shoes were soaked through completely by the time I got home, as were all of my belongings in my backpack. Fortunately my electronic devices are unharmed, but my checkbook's really rather damp. Marf.

Now we're all hunkered down at the Murkworks, waiting to see if the promised suck-ass winds are going to blow through tonight. We have power, though further down the hill there wasn't any--all the street lights were out along the windy goat-trail side road up from the Lake Forest Park shops. And one of the trees I passed was at a dangerously steep angle over the road.

Anyway, if we fall off the face of the Net, this'll be why.

Hardcore power flickers at the Murkworks

We just went dark here for a few seconds, though we came immediately back. That's been the heaviest of a series of ongoing flickers. The streetlights down the hill are dark again, though I see people's Christmas lights still on, down on various houses. We may or may not have power through the night. I'm betting not, considering how less than stable the power grid around here gets when the weather sucks so hard.

As I'm typing this, there are more flickers. I may have to shut down soon if this keeps up. What a great night to be downloading online music!

And I may have to write out the next scene of Queen of Souls longhand. Whee!

9:45pm, mark

Power just went out at the Murk. I'm on battery on my laptop and our connection is on UPS right now. YAY!

I'm going to power off my laptop as soon as my downloads are done. Five tracks left and counting!