August 29, 2011
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Good Night Irene
Well, Irene has come and is about gone. Here in Downeast Maine we missed the worst of the storm. An inch or two of rain, gusts to maybe 45-50 knots all last night. Today is bright, sunny, windy and cool. We lost power from late afternoon yesterday until late morning today and had a few tree limbs blown down but no significant damage.
Our area - the eastern tip of Maine - didn't get the flooding western ME, NH and VT did - our lake is up about a foot but the dams seem to be holding. Our neighbor showed up this morning with hot coffee - rooted us out of bed -we are very grateful - he was a lifesaver. He went off to Acadia NP to check out the waves. I don't thing the park rangers will let him, or anyone, onto the shore road - a couple of years ago a rogue wave swept several wave watchers - 50 feet up from the shore line - were swept off - one was killed - a whole family was severely injured. Hopefully no one around here will be this time.
Comments (6)
Nice to hear everything is ok for you.
Always nice to see the sun shining after a big storm. Not only metaphorically!
ciao
dario
Glad to hear all is well and that there were some neighbors that were being neighborly to check in with you. Hope things have been going well, it seems you just arrived and now it's gotta be getting close to when you have to head back south. Enjoy your time and take some pics if the leaves start to turn, we don't get much of that here.
@rush24a - One of the delights of retirement is that you can decide on your own agenda. When we were teaching we mostly had to leave here in mid-august. For the past 26 years we have been able to stay through the beautiful fall that this area enjoys. It's still pretty hot in north FL (90's) while it max's out in the 70s up here. We'll stay until Columbus Day (Oct 10). After that up here the leaves are mostly gone and it freezes at night occasionally - We've even had snow in mid-september. Our camp is not winterized - water line from well above ground, etc, so it becomes difficult in really cold weather.
We have a "three-season"cabin. That pretty lake out in front gets ice two or three feet thick - ice-out is generally in mid-april.
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