Update from G-Par

From Geoff, who now lives in DC, where there's been some bad flooding of late:

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We lost some stuff, but you know, mostly stuff we didnt' need anyway. We dealt with it fine the first night, we both have country roots and dealing with floods is just something that gets stuck in your DNA. (definition of a low maintenance woman: When you ask her to help you sweep three inches of water out of your apartment and into an unclogged drain the only question she has is whether you have any bricks to put under the furniture legs). But we both almost broke last night when it flooded again. It wasnt' as bad this time, but that meant that instead of draining it out the front door we were sucking it into a shop vac and then I was lifting a little over a hundred pounds of water up and dumping it into the tub. Thats a fun way to spend an hour.

We were both ready to collapse into bed but our bedroom is the only room with carpets and it smelled terrible, mildew was already setting in, and the new flood had resoaked the carpet that we had gotten reasonably dry that morning, we tried to find a hotel, but we only know where two are. We got to one, a little before midnight and there was an orthodox jew ahead of us in line. He must have had some kind of convention going on, because he spent literally 20 minutes confirming whether other jewish people had already checked into the hotel. He was still going at it when we finally we gave up and drove home to sleep in our recliners. Hell of a night. I got the bed moved out of our bedroom this morning, figured the mildew would destroy it if I didn't, but I told Mel we could get a hotel if she wanted to, I'm not sure what she has planned.