Well here I am stuck inside. Fingers crossed the power will stay on. Hurricane Sandy is pounding the East Coast with high winds, storm surge and extremely high tides helped along by the full moon.
The power went out for about 3 hours but there hasn’t been too much hard rain …at least not where I am anyway.
I don’t live right on the ocean and I’m not on the first floor. We have a lot of rivers that crisscross our town, some are tidal rivers and we do get flooding from those sometimes but it never reaches my area of town.
(Waves roll in at Winthrop Ma)
Photo by: David Brazier, Winthrop, MA.
I have the sliders to my deck open and can hear the wind blowing and gusting but it’s very warm. If it weren’t for the drizzle you wouldn’t even need a sweater.
They say Hurricane Sandy is the biggest storm to hit the Northeast since a hurricane in the 1800’s. New York City is flooding even now and there is expected to be major shore erosion on Cape Cod.
I wanted to go down to Beavertail State Park in Rhode Island to see if I could get some “angry sea” photos. I changed my mind when I saw pictures on the news of the waves on Narragansett Bay.
There’s a section of the road to Beavertail that is very low with Narraganestt Bay on the left and the tidal flats on the right. I’m sure that’s underwater right now.
Photo By Steven Senne
But here in my little corner of the world it hasn’t been as intense as Hurricane Irene which dumped torrential rains along with the winds. My neighborhood had huge trees come down during Irene. I watched them from my deck but there’s been nothing here this time. Not to say there aren’t trees and limbs down other places…just none near me.
(Taunton MA)
We still have a number of hours to go and the longer the wind blows the weaker the trees will get so we may still lose a few. Tomorrow I will venture out to see what I missed by staying inside today.