Into each life...

Ah, not everyone in the environs of the District They Call Columbia was as happy as I about Saturday’s rain. For me, it was restful (and didn’t flood my livingroom). But for others…

Well, friends of mine in a part of Fairfax County that’s still got horse properties announced that a full day of rain washed out the four-foot culvert that supports their road over a creek. This marooned everyone on the down-side of the creek along the dead-end private road. Meaning the property owners will have to pay for rebuilding the road themselves.

And get it done before their supplies of milk, bread and single malt whisky run out.

But closer to [my] home, I was driving over to meet a friend for dinner in the People’s Republic on Sunday when I spotted this at the roadside.

I’d walked passed this stretch of the road coming back from the farmers market Saturday morning, and everything was fine. Obviously, some time between 0900 on Saturday and 1730 on Sunday, things became not fine. This car—which I truly hope was just parked and empty—was utterly totaled.

There’s more rain predicted throughout the week.