Never a dull moment

The remnants of this season's first tropical storm came through earlier today. One word sums up the morning drive to work: rain, rain, and more heavy rain. Unlike yesterday, no accident tied up traffic on the way to work.

The highlight of the day goes to the two power outages around lunch time. They were long enough where the UPSes for our workstations gave out (UPSes typically last several minutes; mine lasted under a minute), and IT started shutting down the servers. Most of us developers have laptops, so we were able to run on batteries for a while. But with the servers going offline there was little we could do, so some headed home and some took a long lunch.

The word was the power grid we're on went out. Since the grid is out, nearby traffic lights probably are out too, and restaurants can't operate either. The rain was still pouring so I stayed in working on my laptop.

Around noon, the power came back, and I went out to get a sandwich. Soon after I sat down to eat and turned on my computer, the power went out again. Nice timing guys.

The power soon came back again, but IT had decided to keep most servers offline until tomorrow morning because of the power instability. Who'd thought we'd get two atypical days in a row.

Several streets were flooded around the area, and a local mall had to close because of high water in the parking lot. At least my car got a good cleaning.