Huricane Charley
It is officially Friday and I am stuck at work. Why you say? You are suppose to be on vacation. Well that is one of the joys of working in law enforcement. If the shit hits the fan you are the first people they call. I can blame good ol’ hurricane Charley for cutting my vacation short. Our chief is just slightly paranoid about this thing demolishing our small city. There is some clout behind this (about a 30% chance) but the impact we will see from it will be nothing compared to a true coastal city. I am here until 7AM and then back again come 7PM tonight. That should be the most interesting part, since it is suppose to make landfall sometime during my shift. It is kinda’ nice that we are running double coverage, it gets ruff in here by yourself. I am not sure what I am going to do tonight though. The person I am working with is also a good friend and we can have conversation about most anything, I won’t have that luxury come 7PM since she just refuses to come back in and work with me (haven’t figured out why yet). I guess I will find something to keep me busy all night. Perhaps it will be busy, I really haven’t had to work in a long time it might not be a bad idea for me to flex my dispatch muscles again. In any case this was definitely not on my vacation to-do list. I probably wouldn’t have answered the cell phone/voicemail had my captain not said that me leave was canceled and I needed to call him back ASAP. He was cool about me being on leave, I am only working these two shifts, so its not really not that bad. I do think that he is going a little overboard with some of his provisions but I be not the powers that be so I just show up and do what I have to do. This could pose some problems for our travel to NY. Hopefully the storm will be a ways ahead of us and won’t cause too much rain while we are driving. People tend to get really stupid when it rains. I have canceled the plans for the little get together at my house on Saturday. The storm should be well clear of our area by then but the area that I live retains water badly and would be nothing but a marsh come Saturday afternoon. I think I am done writing, I have reached that point in the morning that I am just ready for bed. In any case the next 24 hours should be interesting and I will keep you updated.
- Larry
- Larry
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