It's what I would call either "sugaring season" or "the dog shit days of March" here.  A couple of nights ago we had a gully-washer of a thunderstorm. Vast amounts of water fell from the sky, the steeple at 2nd Congo was hit by lightening, and the road in the park turned to solid mud.  Yesterday it was in the 50's and I avoided the park because I ( Read more... )

My weather forecast calls for "cloudy" all day, but it's supposed to be rainy later in the week so I put a load of bedding on the line this morning in expectations that this would be a reasonable drying day.  Apparently not.  It's been lightly raining all morning.  So lightly that I thought it was just mist at first ( Read more... )

Small Boy's bus now comes 20 minutes earlier, so we have to be out the door at 7 AM. It's hard going for my daily two mile walk in the park on gloomy days so soon after dawn.  This morning it was raining.  I don't really care if it's raining: I wear a raincoat and I can change my shoes when I get home, but it does make the air sort of clammy to ( Read more... )

It was a foggy morning this morning, very wet.  It's going to heat up later, though, and then get cold again later this week.  At the bus stop the children were talking about what clothes to wear; they want to wear their new school clothes, but it's too hot ( Read more... )

I'm hearing people bitch about FEMA pulling out of an area that was condemned and that power still isn't back on to the houses that were condemned ( Read more... )

We were out for a walk on the island yesterday and I noted that there were a lot of cars on the island, lots of activity outside houses, and people were pulling boats out of the water.  We watched the harbormaster escort in a whopping big Coast Guard vessel - I don't know what you call it when it's that big.   I hadn't realized how big it was until ( Read more... )

( I love the sky there. )

I woke this morning to the sound of helicopters overhead.  It was the governor, come to visit our island.

There's one route out of town open... at the moment.  The river is still rising.  I changed my mapquest to use it for my planned trip to the zoo this morning.  But then I checked the zoo's website and it hasn't been updated since Saturday.  ( Read more... )

It's emergency-preparedness season.  I grew up always within an hour's drive of the Canadian border: there is an atavistic need to put by food and firewood as the nights grow colder.  Winter is Coming are words that I live by.

But, imminently, there's a hurricane coming.  I just saw the tracking and it goes directly over my house.  Directly.  If it ( Read more... )

There was a tornado in my valley this evening.  It was 40 miles away in the Big City, no where near my house.  But, heh, guess where I was?  ( In the tornado. )