Nobody is canoeing down my street today...so thats good.

As I'm sure you're aware, I've been a bit busy these past few days. Busy doing nothing. While that may sound odd, thats essentially what a hurricane or tropical storm can/will do to you if its not serious enough to merit an evacuation. You're busy making sure that the doors of your home aren't letting water in and that you are as prepared as you can be should your home face any major flood or wind related damage but, essentially, you aren't doing anything 90% of the time. Just sitting around listening to the rain and watching the radar for updates. You can't do anything else. Its windy, its raining (in this case for three days straight) and, quite often, the roads are not fit for driving. I've never been snowed in but I imagine the feeling is awfully similar and that, in both cases, you're dying to get out of the house by the second day.

Dont get me wrong, its not exactly horrible to have an excuse to sit around your house, drink and play Wii but, even that can get tiresome when you don't have any other options. In the end, I probably shouldn't have mocked this storm to the degree I did, but there was no way to know that Fay was going to park herself above my town and proceed dump rain endlessly for 3 days. I mean, who would've guess a tropical storm would break rainfall records throughout the county and while resulting in wide spread power outages? Certainly not me. Hell, I thought it was ridiculous that school was being canceled. Now, school won't be back in session until Monday, there are tons of areas still under multiple feet of water and most people just want to get back to living their everyday lives. Obviously, things could've been worse for me. I was never once concerned about my house or my family, I got to get drunk for a couple days straight and through it all, I had the Olympics to provide me with a steady diet of worthwhile TV.