"a pretty ghetto place"

That's what she said. I found that article about Hilary Duff describing the Maryland suburb from whence her rocker boyfriend comes—which apparently, she has never visited—while researching whether or not I should leave on my trip this morning.


However, Lisa Ferrari convinced me to stay home today. (You can watch her talk about flash-flooding in the video on the link above.) That, and the first thing NPR told me this morning while I was still half-awake is, "Torrential flooding hits the Mid-Atlantic region, and there is no break in the forecast." Of course, I researched that claim on my own. While there is rain forecast all this week for my Virginia adventure, today seems to be the worst of it—at least over the course of the next seven days. So, I'm going to postpone. For a day. I'm still a man, look at these pictures. Or these headlines.

Of course, the silver lining to this cloud is that we are no longer in danger of a drought, for the time being.