Hey Georgia, I think we stole your water

We've had lots of storms this year. My laptop's spending more evenings turned off and unplugged. But the last few days we've gotten not just lots of lightning and thunder but torrential rains, and flooding. I still think Bloomington as a whole is flood-proof due to slopes and height above real rivers, but slopes mean various dips which are floodable. LJ community photos, and student paper photos. I hadn't even noticed Wednesday's excitement, not having left the house much due to rain, sore throat, and little intrinsic reason to go out, but I've seen the alluvial deposits -- yes, the gravel banks are thick enough to qualify, though my rusty geologist fu thinks there's probably a better name -- and now we're getting a bunch more rain, current 1/3 inch an hour, thougrh I guess that's not near Wednesday's peak of 1.5 inches/hour and 2.32 inches total for the day.

So, how about that weather control?

Observations on politics and fans and author and albinos

I've noticed almost no one I know here seems to spontaneously discuss politics. I grew up a news junkie; that faded in college, but we'd still talk about stuff, like libertarianism with John, and presumably something about current politics. Primary discussion here? Almost none. Not that I bring it up either, but I feel that's because of the atmosphere. Strange.

I tried de-dusting a window fan I've had for six years. I figured a simple electric motor could have dust washed out of it. I was wrong, it broke. And I wasn't able to break open the motor to see what it looked like afterwards. I got a replacement yesterday, fancy $20 one with circular grill rather than $12 replacement with the same rectangular grill. I think it does indeed have more airflow, which is actually a drawback since I use the thing more as a white noise generator, not for airpower.

P. C. Hodgell has a Livejournal, tagmeth

edit (what does ETA stand for, again?): African albinos being killed for lucky body parts. (from akashiver)