At #1 daughter's we got A LOT of rain on Sunday. There was some flooding, but her abode stayed dried. A few streets started flooding and were getting worse when we decided to return to her apartment. Then hubby and I started looking at flood/hurricane damage for our route home. The NYS thruway was closed in several places, due to flooding. Okay, so we were waiting until Monday to leave, anyway. Monday morning, there was "just a 40 mile section" on I90 that was still closed. Silly us, we decided to head out THAT DIRECTION, because, how bad could it be? Miserable? It took 2 1/2 hours to go 3 miles on the highway before we even exited. Then it took another 3 hours to take the "detour". After we got home, a total of 9 1/2 hours after we left (it's normally a 3 1/2 hour drive), we noticed that instead of diverting all the traffic onto 2 lane roads that wind through towns, they have now closed the thruway and diverted traffic onto OTHER INTERSTATES! Hind sight being what it is, we should have taken another route, but when we passed the exit before the closure, there wasn't any traffic! Yeah, because it was all stuck in the mess to get off.
Anyway, once we got back on the thruway, after the closed section, there wasn't any more trouble. We got off before it was closed again (one exit past ours, but it is 15 miles away, so our exit wasn't impacted). But we did make a note of how long the traffic going west was snarled, before getting off at their closure point. Traffic was snarled for at least 6 miles. No wonder they finally realized that taking all of I90's traffic through these little towns wasn't working.
Last night was definitely a "wine" evening. Not so good for the program, but definitely good for the attitude.
So, we're back home. I'm trying to rally myself to go to the gym. I know I'll feel better about my joints and whatnot if I go, but right now, I don't have the energy. Maybe in a bit. I'm just wondering when things will ever get back into a "normal" mode?
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