I sighed to myself and close my laptop.

The hurricane force winds and torrential rain pounding against the office windows drowned out its tiny little built-in speakers easily.

I guess I wouldn't be passing the time with Netflix after all.

I got up from my desk and walked around the office.

The large windows which normally provided an excellent view of the harbor were completely blacked out by the storm.

Even the large LED floodlights that normally illuminated the parking lot were barely visible

through the horizontal down pour of water that the sky was throwing at us.

My boss liked to keep someone on overnight in weather like this, just in case a boat,

or God forbid one of the floating docks, broke free in the wind,

but realistically I couldn't see anything and I certainly wasn't able to go outside, if anything, did happen tonight.

I had sat through thunderstorms in this office before, but this one was especially bad.

So much so that even Mike, this guy who lived on his boat all summer, had gone

into town to stay with a friend just in case. That's how you knew it was bad. The whole

office shook as a wave pounded into the glass that faced out towards the bay. I will never

understand why whoever designed this place decided to build the office right on the break

wall that protects

these small recreational boats from the wrath of the Great Lakes. And furthermore, why they

decided to make the wall that faces the lake almost entirely out of glass. I guess it's because

in normal weather, it offers a good view of the water and any vessels entering the harbor,

but in storms like this

it really makes you feel exposed.

I pulled out my phone to check the time.

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