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In better times...a view of the same building from the beach:

Yep, down here too. Just finished bringing all the important plants inside.

Bring it!

Ahh...late stage capitalism. Just wonderful. /s

Nice showers this morning with a few minutes of heavy rain mixed in. And now suddenly the sun is peeking through. Sun doesn't look to last very long as more showers moving up from the south. 64/63

3.37" total here. Basement stayed dry so that's a good thing.

Still snowing......errr, raining down here. Ground has been wet since early Saturday AM.

18-24” with lollis to 30” .

Lost power about 15 minutes ago. Just light breezes at the moment. Can’t believe both ‘tropical’ systems caused power outages here. .

Tons of acorns down here in the woods. Lots of different species. Not very many from the giant red oak near our driveway though. Absolute bumper crop of hickory nuts this year. Like you've noticed, most leaves around here look like crap. Brown or spotted and diseased looking.

Aircons out....turn the heat on this weekend.

Nice low level swirl showing up east of the Space Coast this morning. Heavy convection getting pushed to the north and east though. We'll see if that swirl and convection can merge or if a different low level center forms under the convection.....or it just remains a big mess.

Obviously fish food, but Nigel is a fun looking storm. Eye is bigger than Rhode Island now. Would be interesting see how this board would react if we had something that looked like this about 50 miles east of Hatteras and chugging north.

Weak sauce as expected, yet somehow just enough to take out my power since 1:00pm. Tree or branches down on the wires down the road.

pics or it didn't happen. lol.

Tor warned on the RI/MA border...nice hook

Structure looked amazing when I left work in Norwichtown around 2:30pm. Wish I'd had time stop and take pictures of it.

I know not everyone can get it, but if you're in the military or a vet, or married someone who is, USAA is THE insurance to get. Zero issues putting in claims for my cars. 1 deer strike $7k and one parking lot fender bender $3.5k two years apart paid in less than a week each time. Another time 10+ years ago I was in fight with a pickup truck fender while riding my bicycle. Carbon fiber frame snapped in two. USAA homeowners coverage paid current market value for a replacement frame and parts even though it was a 4 year old bike and I wasn't anywhere near my house when it happened. There's a reason other insurance companies have the nick names they do: Snake Farm, AllSnake, etc... In Lee related news, looks like the ERC is well underway. Perhaps tomorrow AM we'll wake to a much larger eye. Always love the way those look in the early AM.

"It's coming." ™

And of course an hour later the shield is down as storms back build to the south...keep blowing up just north of the house. Nice rumbles of thunder.

New London county rain shield in full effect again today.

Decent amount of acorns this year but a bumper crop of hickory nuts. All the Shagbarks in the woods behind the house are dropping giant hickory nuts. The Tulip trees have been very slowly dropping bright orange leaves for a couple of weeks now, but that's pretty normal for them. I did notice that our big Schwedler Maple has dropped a whole bunch of brown dried up leaves in the past few days. It never really gets bright colors in the fall but it seems pretty early to be dropping lots of leaves. In other news, still warm and more humid than any day this week today. 85/77 currently IMBY. I see KSNC is 84/79. Sticky out there.

Heh...we shall see. I'll take the overwhelming odds that Lee is not going to hit New England. Still at least it's something fun to track and if nothing else should bring some great swell for surfing and boarding.