Wednesday afternoon

Sitting here listing to an online radio station and sorting through programs. I wonder how long it will take before we get used to having this new connection? I rather hope the excitement lasts a while. :) Anyway, that's why I'm writing now. I just realized that I wouldn't have to go through the bother of connecting just to write a journal entry!

The original plan was for Magnus to get up and be at the office (insurance office) by 10. It was a meeting with the VP of the entire coorporation, and there were strict instructions that no exceptions would be made in attendance. It was raining pretty hard, so when he got up and started talking about the creek levels, etc, I had to get up to go check it out. I wasn't overly interested in it, though. Anyway, it looked much more like a river than a little creek. I mean, the normal level is less than a foot deep behind our house. I was laying in bed worrying over Magnus going to Lexington and wishing he didn't have to when the phone rang. Mom had called to tell us that it was not just a lot of rain, but Morehead was actually declared a disaster area. Two feet of water in the MSU powerplant, Main Street covered, businesses and schools closed, vending machines floating away.. that sort of thing. Also, that the flood warning was still on, and a couple of my cousins who live a mile down the road had been evacuated, and they were opening up the community center for evacuated people. Soo. We got up, but there was still no real reason to panic. We're quite far up on the bank, even though we're closeish to the water. I think Mom was more concerned about us being awake and ready in case it DID get worse. It's been going down steadily since then, though. Our creek was apparently up to 17 feet and expected to rise 2 more.

You know it's bad when the weater channel keeps mentioning Kentucky on the national weather forecast. It was pretty annoying, though, because it was mainly them talking about how great this rain was for new england, which is in a drought. Well, yes, a couple of kids have drowned in Tennessee and Texas, but look! Water for the east coast! Yay!
But I'm not bitter. :)

Magnus did call in to the office and explain that our creek was up a few feet, and to explain the magnitude of this, that there was also a car in our backyard that'd been washed down the creek (turned out to be a truck.) They agreed that it was okay if he didn't make it in. But by 11 or so, the rain had stopped, and the water levels were way down from what they were, so he decided he really should go on to Lexington to do the drug testing for the new company. He's on his way there, now, and has been calling me a bit to let me know he's still okay. (I worry. I have a right.) Anyway, apparently town shows quite a bit of flood evidence, but the interstate is clear. The roads were moist, he said, and not wet. So that's good. Flash flood watch in effect for the rest of the day, I think (not sure. REALLY tired of the Weather channel about now.) But that shouldn't really be too big of a threat for us now. Keeping our fingers crossed, of course, but it'd be highly unlikely at this point for anything to happen. Which is good, as we never got around to getting flood or even homeowner's insurance.. remind me of that in a little bit. We need it. Anyway.

I went down to the creek with Mom (she drove down) at 8 and took pictures. I made a quicky page to upload. If you want to see: Click here.

Wednesday night

I've already fallen asleep on the couch once tonight. Getting up that early must not agree with me. :)

Today's been a pretty good day, considering. Nothing or noone personally injured in the flood. Magnus got his drug testing done. It's not supposed to rain again until Monday. Alton Brown was on (even if it was a rerun, it was a good rerun that we hadn't seen all of.) And we've had the downloads going most of the day. Neat neat neat.

Dinner, however, was not so nice. I had noodles, and I just noticed that I'm hungry again. I hate eating breakfast. Or maybe I just hate being awake for all three meals. We desperately need to go to the grocery. Perhaps I'll go tomorrow while Magnus is at work and be all housewifey. *giggle* Or not. :) It's funny, because we typically do all of our shopping together. I don't know why. Magnus has lots of 'run-to-town-and-get-something-real-quick' runs sometimes, but we almost always do the shopping shopping together. I like that. It's much less boring that way.

The parents stopped by this afternoon. Dad wanted to see our new equipment, and see it in use. So I had the nice idea of plugging the other computer into the router to see if it'd work without doing major surgery on it, and guess what? It did! So Dad used it, and I tried to entertain Mom but failed miserable, so she went off to watch TV. Then they left.

Magnus used to complain that I got more mail than him. I told him that that was because I have mailing lists. He hmphed and snorted and continued to complain. Now he gets 100 messages every day from the mandolin board, and I feel completely mail-less. :( How pathetic.

We've got this ladybug problem. They've invaded us, and more specifically, they've invaded this room. A few minutes ago, one came buzzing at me and hit me in the ear and started flapping around. I hate it when they do that, and it seem that they do it constantly. I must have tasty ears.