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Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the blue-green algae.

Under the category of blogging when something important happens, I figured I’d record for posterity how it went for us during the Lake Erie Harmful Algae Bloom (HAB) of 2014 — also known as Aquapocalypse, Waterpocalypse, and #emptyGlassCity.

(Side note: the only other major event akin to this one that I could think of that I might have blogged about was the Northeast Blackout of 2003, and it was kind of a non-event for me, as the bank where I worked at the time had its own backup generator, and our department’s computer systems were independent of the rest of the company. So, our work went on, and I believe power was restored by the time we clocked out for the day.)

The Reader’s Digest version of the weekend for us: We didn’t get to go out to eat. Boo hoo. Seriously, that was the biggest impact — that, plus needing drinking water. Luckily, by the time Aaron went out to get some, the local stores had restocked. No problem.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

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