Oh, I bet you are cute when you do the salsa, Mephisto. What caused you to take lessons? I think the tango is awfully hot, myself, but I know little about ballroom dancing. What differentiates the salsa from other styles?
It is so wet here that schools in many districts are closed, and a couple of freeways are closed due to flooding. Bolinas, where Sugar Magnolia lives, of course, has lost its water supply, but I do not think she is worried because she drinks mostly beer and wine anyway. In Novato, also in Marin County, they are quickly trying to sandbag the PG&E substation before it is totally flooded and gas and electric service to 50,000 customers is lost.
This morning I was doing the dishes, and that emergency broadcast noise and picture came on the television--the same one that they do when atomic bombs are incoming. Always before it has been a test, and I was waiting for "this is a test", but it did not come. Fortunately, they were reporting flash flood conditions everywhere, not nuclear winter, but still it was a little alarming.
This is all considered such an emergency that the local stations have pre-empted the network morning programs, and so instead of the latest about the Monica and Billy saga, and all the culture that Washington and New York can beam out to me, I am forced to watch local therapists called in to remind everyone that we feel OUT OF CONTROL when Mother Nature rears her stubborn and regal head, but that the best thing to do is RELAX AND ENJOY IT, and make complex inside structures out of sheets so that children get plenty of creative play out of the experience, and do not develop the worst symptoms of cabin fever.
I am glad that although I live on a steep, terraced urban mountainside, the earth is not moving in my neighborhood, and that schools here are open. It is quite exciting to suddenly have to drive through several feet of water, but Volvos are strong, and I feel generally lucky. It is awe-inspiring to watch houses, full of love and all of the objects we have collected, end up at the bottom of a hill in a mudslide, and I do not have to drive very far to see that. Thank the goddess for small favors!!!! |
