Give Nathan Hale an Umbrella! It’s Raining Inside!

There are four little garbage cans set up in the Capitol’s east atrium and the muffled plunk of rain water can be heard this morning as the raging storm tests the aging specifications of the flat roof above the fifth floor. What makes this unusual is that for the past couple of years, big tarps have been set up like trapeze nets under the glass atriums and their fading mullions, to possibly catch fallen glass or leading. Yet, the water is finding a way down to the vicinity of the Nathan Hale statue. Why haven’t the the east and west atriums been fixed yet? They haven’t yet been included in the state budget.

Update at 11 a.m. There are now 10 plastic garbage cans, spread in a line on the south side of the east atrium, collecting the drips. Tour groups are dodging the cans as they come and go on their visits to the state hero.