April 16, 2007
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it’s raining again. it’s been doing that for 24 hours now. anyone who thinks new york city looks beautiful in the rain has only been in the parks, not the residential areas, and definitely not the subway. the rain comes on a slant because of the constant winds, and the gusts kill your umbrella. going to and from field placement yesterday i saw many umbrella carcasses careening down the sidewalks, since the wind just snatched them from people’s grasps. at times i felt like i was on a sailboard, being shoved across the pavement by the wind against my umbrella.
and still the rains come.
my husband and mother-in-law got a phone call from the police in our town yesterday evening suggesting they might want to evacuate because of the flooding. not too long after, they got a second call saying that all of the roads out of our town were impassable, so evacuation was no longer possible. fortunately we live on high ground, so we should be alright. dj would never evacuate anyway because they would not let him take our pets.
