Lee Plays a Nasty Trick On Us

Friday, September 9

Don’t know what it is with these hurricanes and tropical storms named after friends of ours. Instead of quietly passing through, they’ve been staying a while and dumping on us. REALLY DUMPING on us since Wednesday. Such rude guests don’t deserve to be invited for a return visit. If possible, Lee has been worse than Irene in terms of the water it has dropped on us.

Coming home yesterday, I had one of my worst commutes ever. A drive that normally takes me 15-20 minutes, took me about 1½ hours. And that was after I bailed off the Beltway to use side roads to get home. Luckily, Mui called me just before I turned off to Prosperity to warn me that the road I would have normally taken was flooded. Otherwise, I might have been up a creek — literally.

The immediate area around the condo turned out to be fine; wasn’t expecting it to be otherwise. But I did see side roads en route that had been made impassable with standing water. And the parking lot of one apartment complex was under water — with muddy water topping the wheels of the vehicles. The images on the newscasts are not pretty at all; hard clean-up work ahead for a lot of folks.

Lee’s real impact on us is the cancellation of our plans to go to Pohick Bay this weekend. Last time we went there, it was pouring hard and the site was a muddy-mess. Not wanting to repeat that experience, we decided to postpone our trip. I think it’s the right decision! After all, this isn’t the view we want to have …

… through the windows of the Phaeton!!!

P.S. We called Phaeton’s storage place; all’s well there. There’s no water swirling about her skirts. For that we are grateful.