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 By Mike Bemis
It’s five AM; I sit in my office writing. It’s my favorite work time, quiet and there are few interruptions. I gaze out at the mountain, it’s raining. Has been for days. My favorite local weatherman claims that there may not have been this great a rainfall in California in the last hundred years.
The phone rings. It’s an old friend from New York. He’s seen the news and can’t figure out if the incidents are isolated or everywhere. He wants to know if we are OK. I gaze out at the mountain again. “Everything seems to be OK,” I tell him. ‘All the homes up the mountain appear to be where they were yesterday and the mountain looks to be OK. Either that or we are all sliding downward at the same rate and don’t notice it. Life is like that.” He laughs, we chat about the economy a bit and he rings off.
I gaze up the mountain again, ponder the rain soaked landscape and reflect on one of yesterday’s calls. Another friend checking on us. She was home for the day, the roads were washing out and she couldn’t get to work. “Not that it mattered, the phone lines were under water somewhere and the phones at the office weren’t working any way. Happens when it rains, but then it never rains here.”
I get back to my writing. It’s always raining, somewhere. I wonder how many businesses are closed today because they couldn’t get to their buildings or due to some other weather related cause. I wonder at the cost in lost opportunity and I wonder how many of those businesses would have made different arrangements if only they had the chance to do it over again…
 Mike Bemis, Voice Continuity Services
mike bemis@earthlink.net
http://www.voiceserv.net
•Date: 29th April 2005 •Region: US/World •Type:
Article •Topic: BC general
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