A rather impressive storm came ashore over the past few days. The road just visible on the right side of the first photo gives scale for the breaking waves. Swell was 9 meters. The storm was a 10 or 11 on the Beaufort scale. “Trees uprooted. Considerable structural damage” — indeed.

I knew something was up when the weather service forecasters strayed from the usual droll discussions of adiabatic lapse rates, orographic lifting, and vort maxes and included — gasp — two sets of double exclamation points!! It was definitely time to collect loose items about the property and to get out the candles.

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