Yikes

For those of you who are local, picture this:

Driving up Woodrow Wilson from Clinton, turning left onto State Street, then turning onto Lakeland,
At 6:00PM
In complete darkness
And pouring rain
with no traffic lights.

I don't ever want to do that again. And UMC looks really freaky in total darkness. As a side note, a memo to the two idiots in the SUVs on Lakeland this evening- When traffic lights are out it does not mean you have the right of way to plow through all intersections at top speed. 4. Way. Stop.

What was I doing heading back towards work at that hour on a night like this? I wasn't actually heading to the hospital, I was heading to Nick's restaurant for one of our regular conferences. I was really afraid we wouldn't have much of a turnout, considering that the power was out at all three of the big downtown hospitals where most of our attendees work. Turned out we had less than usual, but not as few as I expected. My pessimism towards the attendance didn't have anything to do with an anticipation of additional patient care due to the blackout, it had to do with the fact that most of the docs park in the garages and couldn't get their cars out.

On another side note, Greg got called in to work when the power went out, which means he is missing bowling for the 3rd week in a row. I got a message a little while ago that power was back up at UMC about 8PM but I expect he'll be there a while since the servers were still not up. It'll be a long night for him.