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EL CAJON, CA (Lindocola LiveJournal):

During a respite from heavy rains, water fell from the sky, but not from the clouds.

At about 11:00 on Tuesday night, a hit-and-run driver slammed into a fire hydrant on Shady Lane, creating a 40-foot tall geyser. El Cajon Police and Fire Department arrived some time later, and were able to shut off the valve at about 11:30, but not before thousands of gallons of water flowed into the Crown Trailer Park.

Here are my pictures:

We live in #41, second from the street. What you see here is the water splashing down on #42, a van in parking space #1, and an RV in parking space #2. My car (with the broken passenger side window covered by a blanket) is in space #4, and was spared from flooding. I really should get that window fixed.

A little closer. You can see power lines interrupting the blast. Good thing those weren’t damaged. The situation would’ve been a lot worse. Next door, Toni and Gene said no water entered their trailer, but their front patio received the full brunt of the flood.

After fifteen minutes, the police arrived to investigate. It took firefighters about fifteen minutes to shut off the water. Shady Lane attracts a lot of hit-and-runs and strange accidents. While I have beem here in the park, a car has rammed a trailer while trying to avoid police TWICE. In the last two months, there have been at least two other hit-and-runs. I’ve also heard what sound like explosions. The only unusual thing that happened today before this was that a funnel cloud DIDN’T hit our park during the Tornado Warning/Watch today.

Speaking of warnings, the whole county is practically under a Flash Flood Advisory. I’m pretty sure this isn’t what they had in mind. As you can see, my porch became a temporary river. No damage thankfully to next door or our trailer.

In my scurrying around to see if anybody needed help, and taking pictures, I soaked my Vans tennis shoes. Bronwynn also needed to get to work about this time. But the flood prevented her from leaving until about 11:35. She had to wear trash bags to get to her truck.

Interestingly enough, as I edit this at 12:00am – it has started to rain yet again. The water is gone from the patio, but towards the middle of the park, there have to be some residual reservoirs.

Most Simpsons fanfic/fanart is horrible, but I wanted to give this guy props sometime ago.

Jake Lennington started putting his Simpsons drawings on his webpage 6 years ago, and now he has conceived and designed Maggie and Eric, a series that takes place 12 years in the future.

If I were Matt Groening or Fox, I’d be knocking on his door to offer him a job. He is fantastic.

Nominations were announced from the The Academy of Science Fiction Horror and Fantasy. This is the only place where you will see sci-fi films and TV treated as artforms without bias.

How would you like to work in a place where this placard hangs on the wall?

DON’T ALLOW YOURSELF TO DREAM AWAY TIME. BE PRODUCTIVE.

We have your soul. There’s no escape! You are ours forever and don’t even think about fantasizing about a different life! Welcome to hell!

Oh yeah, the office where I observed this sign was the California Secretary of State’s Office in Downtown San Diego.

At least their pension is fine… oh wait, strike that…

“I am the Frenchman on Dan’s answering machine. Kiss my feet, American swine! Vous ne comprennez pas le francias? Tough merde! Leave your message, you offspring of sewer rats!”

I’m just keeping this for archive purposes, so I can throw away the magazine.

Why do we make it so hard for them to learn?

More…

They speak for success.

Death of a Playwright

It’s never… it’s never enough… it’s never enough until your heart stops beating.

Current elapsed time: 15 hours, 20 minutes.

I am a man possessed. I must be. I made a decision to stay awake for 32+ hours.

There is only one reason for me to do this, and it’s not trying to get into the Guiness Book of World Records. I have to clean. I have to FINISH cleaning, more specifically.

You see, this is the reason I cannot get anything else done. This is the reason why I get on the computer, drink lots of caffeine, and then have wicked insomnia. There is a reason I coined the term “Barney Snooze.”

Let me get out my personal slang dictionary and look it up for you:

Barney Snooze: (2004) noun. The act of letting a child under the age of 3 run around a presumably baby-proofed room while napping, usually while children’s programming is running on television. Can also be used as a verb. origins: to snooze, shutting off an alarm and resetting for 9 minutes later; Barney, the beloved great puple demon on PBS.

Needless to say, Bronwynn doesn’t like it when I do that. And it is irresponsible, but I’m having the damnedest time getting up even after 8 hours of sleep. I have to fix that.

So I have to fix my inner clock and the only way to do that in my current condition is to just STAY UP. I am counting from 12:20 pm yesterday. My previous personal endurance record was 28 hours, and that involved cleaning my bedroom, moving into a new apartment and working at Fuddrucker’s. This time, all I have to do is clean, and reapply for food stamps (again, not happy about it, but we gotta eat), watch Siobhane, count the pink miniature chimpanzees hanging from the ceiling (Stop moving, damn it. STOP MOVING!) and survive until at least 8:20pm, probably 10:00pm later on today. Maybe with an altered consciousness in the waning daylight will allow me to complete some of those hard crosswords in the books I have.

I am going to check back in every few hours to let you all know of my progress. It’ll be fascinating how incoherent I might become. Feel free to comment, tell me I’m crazy, cheer me on, or pray for me. I have to do this. I have to fix my problem.

I’m cleaning at close to 4 in the am. No wonder the guy across the way thinks I’m on meth or something.

Have a good day, folks!

I’m not even a fan of San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy, but the courts have essentially ruled that people who don’t follow directions won’t have their votes counted.