Workplace Catastrophe

The mid-Atlantic region got pounded by thunderstorms this weekend particularly over on the Eastern Shore. I didn't see any problems at the house but the story was different when I got to work.

I've mentioned before that I work in the basement of my office building. (My employer insists on calling it the first floor but I know a basement when I'm in one.) Yesterday during the rains, portions of the basement of my office builiding flooded destroying a computer lab as well as trashing our cafeteria and a number of offices. Evidently the rain came in through the main door on the "second floor" - what I would call the first floor - and poured down the main stairwell into my group's spaces. Power is off in some sections of the building. My office seems OK. I have electricity and Internet although the air conditioning is off. It's stuffy and close in here. The air is permeated with that damp, musty smell of soggy carpet. Firemen and recovery people are buzzing up and down my hallways.

Happy Monday.
K-