Duck and cover = Perfect Storm a comin'

[amused]

I went to a Lowes to get a carpet mat to protect the floor from my office chair. When I went to check out, there were at least ten people buying generators. That was just in the few minutes I was in the store. Now they have to go buy gas cans and gas, which will sit around and create fumes. Unless they all have a side of beef in the freezer, I can't see the point.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I went to a Lowes to get a carpet mat to protect the floor from my office chair. When I went to check out, there were at least ten people buying generators. That was just in the few minutes I was in the store. Now they have to go buy gas cans and gas, which will sit around and create fumes. Unless they all have a side of beef in the freezer, I can't see the point.

A house with electricity is an upholstered cave.

[tattuchu]

Weather forecast here just says rain and occasional gusts of wind the next few days. But schools are already closed, according to my mother

[amused]

Wow, they are closing down the *entire* DC Metro system at midnight tonight, including all trains and buses. Federal office are closed Monday, along with a lot of other government offices.

[Jason]

On the positive side you may be able to scuba around the DC subway.

[amused]

On the positive side you may be able to scuba around the DC subway.

Yeah, I don't underdtand why the DuPont Circle Metro station entrance is open to the sky. It's gotta get pounded by this and snow.

Bottom of the longest escalator I've ever seen - in the station, looking up:



Outside looking in:

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I told you about the elevators. I walked up one of those once just to see if I'd be dead at the top.

[amused]

Apparently it filled up with snow like a huge snowcone during the last big snow here.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Apparently it filled up with snow like a huge snowcone during the last big snow here.

Yeah, they didn't think that one through.

[amused]

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... ?src=sandy

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Funny, it's not showing up at all on Google Earth.

[Bella Fortuna]

[amused]

[macdoc]

The nutcracker closes - look at that pileup of cloud inland - what a weird looking bit of weather.....



Ya need a cellarful.

[amused]

I just moved to DC to find work in the A/E business, selling A/E design services.

There are interesting specialties. For example, there is at least one architecture and engineering (A/E) firm here that has a business unit featured on their website that is named Post Conflict Reconstruction. They go in after a war and rebuild.

Hurricane Sandy is forecast to do a billion dollars in damage in the area between DC and NYC.

Hurricane damage is a lot like a war...

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Motherlode!