Well, what a week it has been. I can honestly say I miss DC. Not because I have some great love for the American capital... but because of the weather there. When I left DC last week, it was about 23 degrees Celsius, I wore a T-shirt, sat by the canal and had lobster.
I came to Vancouver... and the damn rain hasn't stopped. We had so much rain that the water supply in this fair city has become clouded and 2 million of us have been told to boil our water before consuming it! Now... 2 million may not be such a big number in most places, but that is 1/15th of all of Canada! The wind was so bad that trees fell down all over the place, people are STILL without power (4 days after the fact)!
We were lucky. We did not lose power. We did lose the ability to use tap water. I am afraid to drink the tap water, brush my teeth etc. I cannot believe that in a country so advanced, 2 million people are forced to use bottled water due to a rain and wind storm. Its not raining right now, thankfully, but I feel like I'll see Noah around the corner any minute now. I'm hitching a ride in that Ark if it is warm and dry.
Anyway, a lot of people are far worse. One of my friends is allegedly going nuts because of the lack of power... that's what happens if you live in Surrey I guess. He'll survive I am sure. I just hope he isn't drinking the bad water that is out there. But then again, Surrey got the all clear yesterday as far as water goes. Oh well. Good luck to him.
I came to Vancouver... and the damn rain hasn't stopped. We had so much rain that the water supply in this fair city has become clouded and 2 million of us have been told to boil our water before consuming it! Now... 2 million may not be such a big number in most places, but that is 1/15th of all of Canada! The wind was so bad that trees fell down all over the place, people are STILL without power (4 days after the fact)!
We were lucky. We did not lose power. We did lose the ability to use tap water. I am afraid to drink the tap water, brush my teeth etc. I cannot believe that in a country so advanced, 2 million people are forced to use bottled water due to a rain and wind storm. Its not raining right now, thankfully, but I feel like I'll see Noah around the corner any minute now. I'm hitching a ride in that Ark if it is warm and dry.
Anyway, a lot of people are far worse. One of my friends is allegedly going nuts because of the lack of power... that's what happens if you live in Surrey I guess. He'll survive I am sure. I just hope he isn't drinking the bad water that is out there. But then again, Surrey got the all clear yesterday as far as water goes. Oh well. Good luck to him.
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