52/301: Calm After Storm
Dec. 25th, 2025 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rejectomorphThe sun appeared unexpectedly Thursday afternoon. I was having a nap, and though the brightness leaking around the blinds woke me up I was unable to fully rouse myself, despite a strong desire to open th9ose blinds and lie in the sunlight for a while. Instead I just fell asleep again, and when I finally woke the sky had refilled with clouds. Well, the forecast is promising more sun in a couple of days, so I can get my sunbathing in then.
The news informed me that there was some flooding in parts of the mini-metropolis during the big storm Wednesday evening, just not this part. There were also a few thousand mini-metropolites without power for some time, and I was lucky not to be one of them. One guy died in Redding. There was flooding all up and down the valley, and even more in Southern California. Three people died down there, including one guy who got hit by a falling tree. We got off pretty easy around here, it seems.
We're supposed to get more rain tomorrow, but then the forecast says four entire sunny days in a row will follow. That means the nights will be getting colder. Clear nights let the day's heat escape. Colder nights mean more furnace time, and a higher utility bill. I suppose I can cut back somewhere else. Like tonight I think I'll cut back on food, because again I really don't feel like cooking. In fact I think I'm about to go to sleep again, and shouldn't be sitting at the computer when I do that. Don't want to fall out of this chair and hurt the floor with my empty head.
The news informed me that there was some flooding in parts of the mini-metropolis during the big storm Wednesday evening, just not this part. There were also a few thousand mini-metropolites without power for some time, and I was lucky not to be one of them. One guy died in Redding. There was flooding all up and down the valley, and even more in Southern California. Three people died down there, including one guy who got hit by a falling tree. We got off pretty easy around here, it seems.
We're supposed to get more rain tomorrow, but then the forecast says four entire sunny days in a row will follow. That means the nights will be getting colder. Clear nights let the day's heat escape. Colder nights mean more furnace time, and a higher utility bill. I suppose I can cut back somewhere else. Like tonight I think I'll cut back on food, because again I really don't feel like cooking. In fact I think I'm about to go to sleep again, and shouldn't be sitting at the computer when I do that. Don't want to fall out of this chair and hurt the floor with my empty head.
