Friday, November 17, 2006


It's still pouring rain, so getting out to get new pictures is something of a challenge. Although, if pressed, I could Return to the Laundry Room.

The other drawback to all this rain is that it's now beginning to interfere with Vancouver's cultural identity. One of the sacred food groups in this town is coffee and the rain is making obtaining it impossible or risky. We get our water from reservoirs in the mountains nearby. This sounds charming, and usually it is, but, the rain has caused a number of large landslides into the reservoirs. In some parts of town, the water is now very, very brown. And the whole city is under a "Boil water" advisory, just in case nasty things were carried into the water along with all that mud. The water in commercial coffee machines (i.e. Starbuck's et al) isn't boiled. Soooooooo, no coffee. Needless to say, the withdrawal symptoms aren't pretty.

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