Water always wins.

[nonelvis]

We're having a slight water event here in the Boston area. Like, about eight inches of rain, apparently, which would certainly explain the inch of water that was in our basement last night, and the two inches there this morning. jagpatel found shop-vacs on sale a few years ago and bought us one; good thing, too, because I filled it at least fifty times this morning. That's not an exaggeration; I was in the basement for an hour and a half, and though I lost count of the bucketfuls somewhere around #38, at a rate of roughly 1.75-2 minutes to fill and drain ten gallons of water, you get fifty buckets.

Huh. The interwebs tell me that's literally more than one ton two tons of water. Go shop-vac!

The basement is busy replenishing its water supply right now, so I figure in another hour or so I'll go back downstairs in a scruffy t-shirt, jeans rolled up to my knees, and my LL Bean boots (I am one sexy beast today, let me tell you), and will vacuum more of this stuff out of the house. Ah, the joys of homeownership.

In other news, in case you are one of the few people who doesn't read XKCD regularly, today's is perfect. (And the rollover text is excellent, as usual.)

Comments

[peebles.livejournal.com]

I soooooo thought of you when I saw that this morning.

[papilio-luna.livejournal.com]

A true testament to what is relevant to the interests of my flist: this is now the fourth time this comic has been posted by someone on it today.

*thumbsup*

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR, I got a Porn For Women calendar for Christmas this past year from my aunt. Everyone else got a kick out of it, but I'm like... WAIT, WHERE'S THE SEX? IT LIIIIIIIIIIIES.

It's been raining crazy here, too, though I managed to sneak out yesterday to have an X-Files day with bonus Lost elements.

[chloris67.livejournal.com]

I was reading friends of friends and I am hoping like mad that we are not vacuuming out our cellar later today. Last time we had a rain storm like this my husband cracked from the strain of keeping ahead of the flood - many, many fillings of the shop vacs - and put in a sump pump. (It took a year for it to get finished and covered properly but it worked right from the beginning.) It has to stop raining soon, right? Right?

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

When this cartoon popped up on my feed last night, I was very much in agreement.

The Mississippi and Missouri are a foot above flood stage already, and the snowcaps have not yet started to melt. Looks like we're in for another one of those springs. *wishes she owned stock in a sand company*

[iainpj.livejournal.com]

Huh. Apparently this Cambridge group has an entire product line. (The URL for their website is eyeroll-worthy all by itself. But I digress. Already.) The interesting thing about their product line is that, on the covers anyway, every single one of them but one features a fully dressed man. (Mind, the one that has an at least partially unclad man would have me saying, "Yes! More of him, please! ... No, really, MORE of him. The lower parts. The entire body. Really." But then, I am not a woman; clearly, I cannot know what women like in their porn.)

Sorry to hear you're having such problems with the Great Nor'easter of '10. The weather reports I've been seeing indicate that it's moving veeerrrrry slooooooowly, so it may be around for a bit.

[alphabetically.livejournal.com]

It just follows logically, don't you see, because women's bodies are NICE to look at but men's bodies are GUH-ROSS.

*headdesk*

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

I am amused by how many people posted this. Hee. Hope the water mess is resolved soon.

[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

A dressed man pretending to be a naked man pretending to be porn? They'll know he's a phony.

[editrx.livejournal.com]

I thank ghu every day for our sump pump in the basement of our place in NH.

And I must say, even for XKCD, that particular cartoon rocks.