What a difference a month makes. It’s amazing how much sand the water has already pushed out of the dunes from the large nor’easter that came through the last time we were at Crescent. For that particular storm, we’d really just gotten the coastal flooding effects. We got four total nor’easters this February/March. […]
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had a walk at Crescent Beach in September when tropical storm Jose was offshore that was one of the wildest experiences I’ve ever had there. Today was more insane. The dune edges were completely obliterated by the storm. The stream coming out of the marsh behind the dunes, which is normally carved a
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Feeling lazy for lunch today, we headed to Scarborough to El Rayo. First good choice of the day – it’s Maine Restaurant Week, so they had a special menu, which involved some amazing enchiladas, and one of the best chocolate puddings I’ve ever had. Since we were most of the way there, we decided
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It got up to 50 degrees today, the kind of day that begged for a walk. Two Lights is my old reliable in the winter- so long as we’ve had any amount of warming (it’s been above freezing, mostly, for the last week), the oceanside paths at least, will be clear.
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This is what greeted me this morning. I find it hilarious that Accuweather hasn’t found a picture to switch out for sunny days when it heads south of 32 F. The lovely field vs -16 is a little incongruous. It is pretty, I’ll give it that.
So last Sunday night was what is now the worst storm in recent Maine history, power outage-wise. At the height of things, there were half a million power outages in the state, which is more than in the Ice Storm of 1998, which was the gold standard of crazy storms. We were fortunate, and did
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