Didn't do the bike / run I was planning to do on Sunday - the original forecast was for the rain to begin on Sunday evening, but the prognosticators kept pulling it forward - to Sunday afternoon, morning, then, finally, Saturday evening. I hadn't heard the last change, and expected to have a good, cool morning for the bike/run, beating the rain and traffic. Boy, what rain did we have Saturday night! All day Sunday - heavy starts and stops to just light mist - it kept coming in waves, finally flooding about an inch in the back yard. It did the same thing all day Monday as well.
The Potomac is running quite high - I can see Roosevelt Island outside my window at work, and can imagine how muddy it is right now - most of the trails are probably unpassable. My first group run with the team was there - I ran around the island's outer perimeter trail with Coach Brian.
When my guy was younger, you could only get to the island by a low dike that would be covered during high tide and, of course, days like this. They had school field trips that were called off due to flooding. The island is now accessible by a taller pedestrian bridge.
The island is quite an amazing piece of land, considering it's urban location. Planes landing at National Airport route right over the island, so you can hear a fairly continuous roar of jet engines above, about a couple of minutes apart at the most on days when that is the prime landing path.
After 9/11, when the airport was closed for an extended period of time, the island was eerily quiet. I'm sure the birds and other animals there were confused about being in real nature.... probably got laryngitis since they didn't have an excuse for a break every few minutes.....
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