Thoughts on making tomorrow suck a little less.

[gurdymonkey]

After a day of intermittent but heavy rains locally, including a tornado warning for San Mateo and an actual tornado strike up near Santa Rosa, this is the NOAA Weather Forecast for Woodland, CA as of right now: Tonight: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43. South wind between 6 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Saturday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. South wind between 8 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Saturday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. South southeast wind between 9 and 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Sunday: Rain. High near 56. Windy, with a southeast wind 16 to 19 mph increasing to between 31 and 34 mph. Winds could gust as high as 70 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

This doesn't even include the flood, high wind and hazardous weather warnings.

So yes, as I'm on court, I've committed to day tripping Crown. I have yet to hear a peep from the head of court as to when I'm supposed to be on duty. I suspect she's thrown up her hands and is in wait-and-see mode, watching the weather and wondering who's gonna bail on the event at the last minute.

My Cunning Plan required me to run into Berkeley after work this afternoon. Lhasa Karnak had sencha and lapsang souchong at $2.50/ounce, so I bought some of each and one of those wire tea balls, then went over to the Tokyo Fish Market for some pretty tea tins, plus the Japanese pickle recipe book I wanted and a chirashi bowl for tomorrow's lunch. I may have to go back again for more tea for ME - it all smelled so lovely, even through the plastic bags. (But my Queen will have tea. Whether she wants to drink it at her Tea is up to her.)

I'm going to pick up baked goods, coffee and layla_lilah (in that order) tomorrow morning and try to get on the road up to the event early enough that we don't have to deal with too many fools driving in the rain. I reserve the right to initiate a bug-out if conditions warrant. For those not from around here, the site is the Yolo County Fairgrounds. Woodland is flat, and a huge wetlands known as the Yolo Basin is only a few miles south. They grow rice around here. You get the picture. I am SO wearing geta.

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[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

The winds were so high today that the doors at work kept blowing in and out to the extreme end of where their hinges would allow. I'm quite surprised that they didn't break. We ended up having to lock the doors in order to keep them closed. That, and the one that couldn't be locked got a bungie cord tied down short.

My roof tarp is in shreds again. I give up now. I'm done.