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home from Pennsic
I'm home from Pennsic. If you've posted entries in the last dozen days that you want to make sure I see, please point them out (comment, email, whatever).
A longer post will come later. Most of this week has been wet, with several storms, which spawned some quotes:
"'30% chance of rain' means that 70% of people who aren't you will stay dry." (Dani, I think.)
During the third storm on Thursday (after the tornado warnings):
"And if that doesn't work, what's Plan B?"
"Plan B is we all run for [my] house and try to land on a witch on the way down." (Degan)
The drainage ditch on (and through) our block partially did its job. We didn't have a repeat of Lake Atenveldt, exactly, but Pond Carillion appeared (pictures later). However, with people from my camp applying shovels to the ditch, it was gone in an hour. (Some people in the barony camp definitely got wet and one tent failed. This was earlier in the week, not yesterday.)
I had a near-miss in the parking lot. Understand that I parked a week ago (in the grass lot) at the end of several days of scorching heat and no rain. I've been going to Pennsic long enough to know not to park on any obvious slopes in the wrong direction, but that still leaves a lot of room for potential problems. I was concerned about what the last several days of rain had done and I had to get home today, so I fetched my car early (trading off reduced sun-drying for reduced wear and tear on the dirt roads from others). My row was just fine, fortunately. The previous one was a total loss; I'm not sure even 4WD would have helped get through that lake.
A longer post will come later. Most of this week has been wet, with several storms, which spawned some quotes:
"'30% chance of rain' means that 70% of people who aren't you will stay dry." (Dani, I think.)
During the third storm on Thursday (after the tornado warnings):
"And if that doesn't work, what's Plan B?"
"Plan B is we all run for [my] house and try to land on a witch on the way down." (Degan)
The drainage ditch on (and through) our block partially did its job. We didn't have a repeat of Lake Atenveldt, exactly, but Pond Carillion appeared (pictures later). However, with people from my camp applying shovels to the ditch, it was gone in an hour. (Some people in the barony camp definitely got wet and one tent failed. This was earlier in the week, not yesterday.)
I had a near-miss in the parking lot. Understand that I parked a week ago (in the grass lot) at the end of several days of scorching heat and no rain. I've been going to Pennsic long enough to know not to park on any obvious slopes in the wrong direction, but that still leaves a lot of room for potential problems. I was concerned about what the last several days of rain had done and I had to get home today, so I fetched my car early (trading off reduced sun-drying for reduced wear and tear on the dirt roads from others). My row was just fine, fortunately. The previous one was a total loss; I'm not sure even 4WD would have helped get through that lake.
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pics in my lj of the event http://rectangularcat.livejournal.com/277496.html
i am at work now! yay work! less chaos!