My work is in the top 6 percent in the Richmond area.
So as of 9:31 this morning, out of the 443,000 customers (i.e. houses and businesses) in the Richmond area, 416,000 of them do not have power, including our house (which lost power about 90 seconds after a call from my parents last night). However, in that six percent of Richmond area that does have power is my employer -- which, probably not coincidentally, is three blocks from the main offices of the power company -- so against Kim's better judgement, I am at work. Lots of downed trees everywhere -- big trees. One tree was leaning so that it about 6 feet above the northbound (my direction) two lanes of a four lane road; I ended up veering into the southbound ones lest it fall on my car. A number of the larger, established trees in our neighborhood are down. (We have no larger, established trees near our house, thankfully.) Water is down to a trickle at our house because of lack of power at the pumping stations. Fun for the entire family!
Anyway, if you want to see how the outage is going, there's numbers or pretty colors.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
