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Disaster Preparations

Earthquakes.  Hurricanes.

Why did I move to the D.C. area again?

We’re still being mocked by the west coast, but D.C. is not used to earthquakes, so we’re all still a little shaken up (har har) by Tuesday’s earthquake.  I’m a midwesterner, and while we were drilled on what to do in case of an earthquake in [...]

Disaster Prep?

This morning, my roommate and I were discussing storm preparations. It all started when we commented how lucky we’ve been with power outages. We had a big storm Sunday night, and while some areas were without power for 24 hours or more, ours was back within a few hours. In previous storms [...]

Equal Knowledge

This morning, I read an article about women and money.  I won’t link it here, but the basic point was “Women usually let the men in their lives take care of the finances, and there are things they should know.”  I have to admit, I felt the whole concept was condescending, but at the same [...]

Snow plans.

Back to work today.  Looks like things are slowly getting back to normal, though the roads are still a mess with giant piles of snow.  I’m hoping the sun will help melt some of it over the week so I can get outside to run this weekend.  I’ve got a ten mile run scheduled in [...]

Snowmageddon!

So we’re supposed to get 16-26 inches of snow by tomorrow night.

Awesome.

I’m kind of bummed that it’s happening over the weekend.  Snow days are much more fun when they’re during the week and we get some time away from work.

The grocery stores here have been INSANE.  Of course, it doesn’t help that one county was [...]