Tales of Woe

December 10th, 2007

You may have heard about the terrible storms that ravaged the northwest US coast last week.  I thought I had escaped unscathed, but sadly this was not so.  It seems my studio flooded. (I think perhaps it may have had something to do with those men pulling all the asphalt off the roof during the storm itself but that is neither here nor there.)  Thankfully, none of my stuff got ruined.  I was especially worried about this because I had every single Jonny Crossbones page on the floor, resting against the wall.  It does seem however, that the laminate floor was completely destroyed.  Over the phone on Friday the building manager told my studiomate BT that we’d be back in today, but when I arrived this morning I found a large damp room with no floor and industrial dehumidifiers tastefully distributed throughout.

At this point, you may be asking yourself, “what does this mean to me?”   What it means is that in combination with the facts that I am in the middle of moving house and am going to be flying to Massachusetts for Christmas next Monday, that I’m not going to be able to do any real updates until January.

So, in summary: A temporary hiatus starts today, and regular updates will resume on January 3rd.  There will likely be small holiday updates.  I also expect I’ll be doing a little blogging over at evil space robot (for which I really need to put a link on the sidebar.)

2 Responses to “Tales of Woe”

  1. Joseph K Says:

    Ho~oly sheet.

    I have a bit of trouble understanding how your floor was destroyed while the stuff on the floor was fine, but I’m glad it is as you say.
    Flooding sure does strike out of nowhere sometimes, and it sure always surprises me just how damaging even minor flooding can be!

    You don’t sound so crazy, though, so I guess all is reasonably well…

  2. Les McClaine Says:

    Basically the water came up from underneath, so the underside of the laminate flooring was destroyed, but the top surface wasn’t.

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