Waiting in a sea of leaves.

"I can hear your whisper and distant mutter. I can smell your damp on the breeze and in the sky I see the halo of your violence. Storm I know you are coming."
Robert Fanney

Hurricane Sandy

The strongest storm in history to come north of North Carolina.

Update of things to come. We are located near the red 60mph area of the map.

Weather Wisdom update

TUESDAY morning update...
We've woken up to damp calm, still have power, limbs and branches down, but no damage to the house or car. Others 30 minutes away in Scituate and on the coast not so lucky. More details soon, many thanks. The wren couple rode out the storm last night in their house by our door safe and sound. I watched them fly in .

I'm posting early, power outages are already being reported north and west of us. The scope of this storm is astonishing, 900 miles wide and growing. A raging New England nor'easter with a hurricane smack in the middle.We have had gusts up to 30 miles and hour, but the worst for us will be this afternoon between 3 & 6. There's flooding already south of us and our coast, 30 minutes awaits a beating with the high tide. Rescues at sea off North Carolina, two feet of snow in West Virginia, the City that Never Sleeps, NYC, shuttered, astonishing. The expected impact is enormous, the largest in our lifetime. Homes and lives will be lost I fear. It's about 300 miles away from us now with 85 mph winds. Here we go, we're just getting started.

The leaves thankfully have tumbled in torrents from the trees overnight. Inches thick underfoot they are no longer sails and traps for the coming, twisting fury. Bare branches do better, but our worry is always the twin pines dancing frantically on the west side of the house. Childhood memories of flying pines and treetops terrify.

My brother and G lowered our old flagpole on the front lawn, sentinel through so many storms, raised by the original owner in the late '1800s' , we could not bear to see it snapped again as it was in a past storm. The old base was from an actual tree, now it hosts the feet of birds and squirrels in the back garden.

We wait, we watch ,we wonder. More later if we continue to have power and a sturdy roof over our heads. Keep the East Coast in your thoughts, the full moon tide will be the terrifying icing on this weather maker that will be no piece of cake.