Climate change has been brutally obvious. Yesterday’s temperature here reached the 50s (F); the day’s wind gusts sometimes exceeded 70 miles per hour, and its torrential rain flooded some low areas. The results were many power outages and high, violent tides.
These forces eroded our coast, ripped rockweed from its granite anchors, and brought that seaweed, dock parts, and other coastal detritus ashore, as you see here in these images of the Town Dock in Naskeag Harbor.
That dock seemed to hold up well; the Brooklin Boat Yard dock in Center Harbor did not fare as well. We’re told that a similar storm should arrive this weekend. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on January 10, 2023.)