Invest 92L

Thursday morning

This morning felt cooler and drier than it has in a week, so I guess it was no coincidence that we had a pretty long line of riders for the 6 am levee ride. With a gradually increasing tailwind the speed stayed a little higher than usual all the way out to Ormond, which I knew meant we'd be battling a headwind on the 20-mile ride back home. Lots of riders to share that with, though, so I was probably in the wind for less than ten minutes the whole time. It's 2 pm right now and looking out the office window past the Superdome it's just a normal breezy summer afternoon with a few scattered clouds and a few Mississippi Kites flying around catching insects. You wouldn't think that the forecast for tomorrow would be as bad as it is. A few minutes ago I got a bunch of alerts on my phone because the weather service has issued a flash flood watch for the city, along with a coastal flood advisory. It things go as currently expected, Invest 92L will become a tropical depression and drift northward toward us tomorrow bringing mainly just a whole lot of rain. Right now it's looking like the rain will start around 10:00 tomorrow morning and it won't stop until some time on Monday. That doesn't mean there won't be an occasional window here and there when it stops, but for all practical purposes it's looking like the weekend will be a complete wash-out. I'm hoping the rain will hold off long enough tomorrow for me to get in an early morning ride, but after that I'll just have to play it by ear.  At any rate, tomorrow is looking like a good "work from home" day. I've heard one prediction of 13 inches of rain. Considering that almost all of the storm drains on our street have been demolished as part of the road work going on, I can't really say what that will mean. There are four storm drains on my block of Neron Place. All four are currently gone, along with four others just around the corner on Lowerline. The one across the street on Pine is blocked off, and the two on that little piece of Neron have been non-functional for years. At least the one on Pine across from the basement door works, although it's probably half clogged up with riversand by now. At least we're on slightly higher ground than most of the surrounding neighborhood. By "slightly" I'm talking maybe a foot, though.