Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Aaaaaand today's off to a roaring start. One the plus side, I didn't need all the alarms I set to wake me up. On the minus side ... I don't suppose anyone's up for coming to my house to empty the roof-leak buckets while I'm at the doctor?

I woke up to the sound of running water. Started to go back to sleep thinking, "Yah, the rain has started and I'm hearing water drip into the buckets," but was just awake enough to notice that it sounded more like pouring than dripping. Uh oh. Got up, and discovered that three of the buckets were already about to overflow. (I wonder what time the rain started?) I emptied those, which meant getting dripped on myself (most of the time I get to wait until the rain has stopped to dump the buckets), then started chasing where leaks had shifted and new leaks formed.

That took long enough to notice that the flow rate is on the order of pints per minute. Those buckets are filling up again awfully quickly. I also noticed a sprinkling in the front room, which had previously been spared. (I can't see where the water is falling from, but there's a spatter of droplets on the floor and I can feel it falling on me if I stand in the corner by the connecting door.)

Oy vey. Last night I was hoping this 'weather event' would arrive late so as to not impede my departure toward the orthopedist. Now that it's here, I'm hoping it moves through really quickly, so that the water isn't coming in so quickly while I'm gone. I grabbed a couple microphone stands from downstairs to rig an awning with plastic sheeting over the part of the floor in the front bedroom (the previously mentioned one warm room in the house, so where I've been sleeping the past couple nights; also where I've got most of my negatives because it's the room the scanner has been in), and the tarp in the back room under most of the buckets can probably contain some significant bucket-overflow. But I'm going to be nervous about not being able to watch the situation and dump buckets out the window unless the rain tapers off a whole lot in the next hour.

But hey, the temperature is above freezing, so at least icy roads shouldn't be a problem. I'm grateful for that.

But I really didn't need this morning to start off so much like that morning five years ago.