November made a nasty first impression yesterday. It greeted us on Halloween and during the wee hours of November 1 with driving rain and wind gusts clocked here on the ridge at up to 70 miles per hour. Many trees and branches were blown down and hundreds of thousands of Mainers lost electricity. Fortunately, we only had a few digital clock palpitations and one spruce blown down at the edge of our woods.
Above, we see the bait hut and lobster smack raft in Naskeag Harbor yesterday morning. It’s being pummeled by 30- to-40-mile-per-hour wind gusts after the storm cleared out. Other scenes at that time show the fishing vessel Ms Max straining at her mooring, a white-capped Eggemoggin Reach, and an indifferent Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park across Blue Hill Bay:
Around the home front, we see those gusts taking our Japanese Silver Grass for a rollercoaster ride and the wind-twisted base of the spruce that was blown down:
However, as we speak, it’s clear and calm, with four MPH gusts from the northwest. (Brooklin, Maine)