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Housemate and I tried to clear the storm drain on our corner, but we weren't able to shift what I suspect is a combination of sediment from past gritting and from bulk leaf decomposition. The other two drains on our street are pulling fine, and the creek is not too high, but rushing fast.

Wind has picked up a bit more. Cats are doing a lot of sleeping. :-) Feds closed again tomorrow (no surprise).

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First power flicker.

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Currently reading Dolly and the Bird of Paradise. Very grateful that if I have to ride out a hurricane, I'm doing it in a house well inland with plenty of candles and books and three very cuddly cats, not in a ketch with no sails, no petrol, no radio, no navigation equipment, no charts, in the middle of the night, somewhere far from land, with several injured people to take care of.

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Cats can handle storms.

Nicco is very worried, as you can tell.

Finny is not worried as long as he has his human.

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I've always loved Connie Britton, and FNL was an excellent show. They both deserve better than to be used as a punchline by a empty suit like Romney. Good for Britton and Aubrey for taking their own work back.

not to jinx anything but...

The winds here are dying down (relatively speaking). And every time I look at the radar and satellite tracks, it looks like the most concentrated areas of the storm have passed us.

I hope I'm right about that.

ETA: Oh, of course. I was forgetting that winds in a low pressure cell go counterclockwise. That big orangey bit out in western PA is going to be swinging back this way before it heads north. Still, the hurricane seems to have hit Philly, when everyone thought it was going to hit NYC. Interesting.