Election Day 2018. Despite the PTSD from past elections, my housemate and I are settled into the couch with the returns on the tv as we work on our laptops. We both look kind of bad at the moment because Tuesday started very early for us. We live in TN and Monday had some very severe weather which lead to some pretty massive flooding in our hobbit house.
We estimate that we took about 96 gallons of water out of the study and downstairs bedroom before we quit for the night er morning.
Luckily my day job has weather emergencies built into the PTO plans so I could call out and spend most of the day today assessing the damage, cleaning up the mess, and also plotting out what to do about it in both the short term and the long term.
So tonight we are hoping and praying and watching. Turnout has been good, but the stories of voter suppression have also been way more blatant and prevalent than normal.
Here’s to hope and to all those who voted and called and canvassed and texted and acted.
No matter what, tomorrow is another day, and we still have to pick ourselves up and carry on.