Fires and Floods and....

Being smoked out of work for a week because of wildfires was oddly reminiscent of being smoked out of work for three months due to the library being set on fire (even down to having left my PDA at work that weekend this time and my print planner at work that weekend the last time), except that when it was over I didn't have to worry about doing reference work with missing collections.

The old place of employment was gearing up to reopen the revamped post-fire basement but has now been set back by a flood--caused by a pipe bursting in the new fire suppression system. In all honesty, I felt like I should have been there to help rescue my government documents collection, even thought it's not mine anymore (and technically, really still belongs to the government, but, ya know). On the other hand, since this is that organization's second flood in, what, three or four years? (the other happened in another library building on campus one Christmas Eve), I'm honestly still waiting to see if the plague of locusts that's obviously coming decides to manifest itself as termites or rabid cicadas. And bugs really aren't something I want to be a part of.

I guess it's a good thing they have plenty of people with experience dealing with these disasters now...