Weather....

[J.B. Books]

Tomorrow morning when those of us in New England wake up we will find that Hurrcane Irene was much more a media event than a weather event with any significant damage. the media and politicians use such events to get us glued to TV for their benefit, not ours. I am predicting several inches of rain and a little wind equal to a winter Nor'easter. It will be a non event and tomorrow we hear of changes in the weather pattern that couldn't be predicted weakening the storm and sparing us. Some day New England might be hit with a Hurricane of signifance like the one in '38. This ain't it.

[Autumn Daze]

Down here on the coast in CT we have 60 mph winds many trees and power lines down and alot of flooding. My street is impassable right now but we still have power as of now. Not the worst I've seen but a pretty messy day.

[Jim P.]

Pete, I'm going to hold off on the storm assessment until it's actually here. Right now about a mile from the shore in Braintree we're getting bursts of wind well over 50 mph and the storm won't be here for another couple hours. Sounds like a freight train outside but so far only a couple of 150 year old maples have lost 6" diameter limbs. My concern? Ground is saturated, not frozen and the treees are full of leaves. Glad I won't have to shovel it but I left my darn chain saw up north!