...longer than that of the proverbial goldfish, is that you tend to remember things like this, when similar incidents happen - yes, once before, Boston was made chaotic because the PTB overreacted and went bonkers and put the city on alert (no matter what after the fact they were saying in the news, it was majorly played up, to the point where ( Read more... )

Took these yesterday around 6:00 pm EST:


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The slow-motion flooding of New England has been rather surreal, partly because everyone's taking it in such a blase fashion. Which is partly because most of the historic houses here have always had basements flooded in "mud season" and partly because of the collective memory of The Great Hurricane of '38, which killed hundreds of people on the ( Read more... )