Monday, October 31, 2016
It was a ...
... dark and stormy night.
Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. Total for Oct about 6 inches.
Finally seems to be done, with a return to more normal showery pattern after today.
"It was a dark and stormy night" is irresistible, but it's simultaneously redundant and contradictory. Redundant because night is dark by definition. Contradictory because a truly stormy night is bright, at least in stroboscopic form.
Oddity: After 1.25 inches in 8 hours, standing water "should" be much deeper than usual. In fact there's less standing water in streets and sidewalks than the usual half-inch rainstorm.
Guess: Maybe the flow was strong enough to spill over small obstacles and break up leaf dams, moving water out of the usual standing spots?
One unexpected place got more water than usual. The pedestrian walk lights have a pushbutton that normally commands "WAIT!" when the light is still red. This morning I hit the button and didn't hear anything, but the little pilot LED flashed as it should. I hit it again and heard "wait", faint and smothered. Presumably the piezo transducer got drowned.
... dark and stormy night.
Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. Total for Oct about 6 inches.
Finally seems to be done, with a return to more normal showery pattern after today.
"It was a dark and stormy night" is irresistible, but it's simultaneously redundant and contradictory. Redundant because night is dark by definition. Contradictory because a truly stormy night is bright, at least in stroboscopic form.
Oddity: After 1.25 inches in 8 hours, standing water "should" be much deeper than usual. In fact there's less standing water in streets and sidewalks than the usual half-inch rainstorm.
Guess: Maybe the flow was strong enough to spill over small obstacles and break up leaf dams, moving water out of the usual standing spots?
One unexpected place got more water than usual. The pedestrian walk lights have a pushbutton that normally commands "WAIT!" when the light is still red. This morning I hit the button and didn't hear anything, but the little pilot LED flashed as it should. I hit it again and heard "wait", faint and smothered. Presumably the piezo transducer got drowned.
Labels: Language update
¶ 6:32 AM
