This weekend was an early November gale we had winds of over 50 miles an hour from Saturday afternoon to late Sunday. Most of the day Saturday we had torrential rain that was as much horizontal as vertical. I knew that the seas would be something to see so Argy and I took a ride down to Pemaquid Point Saturday afternoon. There were waves that I would guess to be about twenty feet and a few higher ones crashing in on the rocks. There was pelting rain and salt spray flying through the air. We stood behind the brick fog signal so that we would not be blown back by the wind.
I took several pictures but with nothing in the picture for scale the waves do not look al that impressive. When we went to leave there was a tree down and we had to go around on a back road. Many folks lost power and I hear that many of them will be without for at least another day as poles in many locations simply snapped off.
Interesting that last night when I let the dogs out I heard a noise that I did not recognize and even came in to the house to get a flashlight and take a look. It was simply the westerly wind blasting down the hillside behind the house making all of the tree limbs crash together. I had not really heard that since late last winter and had forgotten the sound. We lost a few shingles off of the garage but the big change is that all of the leaves are now gone from the trees there can be no doubt that winter is just around the corner now.
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