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I was in Annandale Friday night. A tree fell on the street where my car was parked; the two cars in front of mine were crushed, but mine was okay. I felt pretty lucky.

Saturday I was at my parents' house in Silver Spring, which lost power, so I went to the library in Burtonsville, which of course was packed with people plugging in their phones and computers. Same at the place where we ate dinner. My mother and I drove around trying to find batteries, and eventually we found some at the Walmart in Columbia.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've been to Walmart, but I'm glad that their store was so disorganized. All of their "Battery Center" displays were cleaned of 'D' batteries, but we found a box of them lying on the floor by the register, which we promptly bought up. We got power back Sunday morning, thankfully, but most of the stoplights in our area were still out as of last night.

by dan reed! on Jul 2, 2012 11:07 am • link • report