The Morning After

Porter Bay, Vermont
44 13.79 N 073 18.92 W


We are fine.  Listening to Vermont Public Radio news this morning, I think we might have had the safest location in the whole state yesterday.  Flooding in Vermont and Upstate NY is severe.   I just heard the Vermont governor on the radio he said something startling, "Every major road in Vermont is damaged."  Every road; WOW!  Bridges are washed out.  Power crews may not get their trucks to some communities for weeks.   In NY, the Mohawk River (Erie Canal) is flooding.


Thank goodness we did not try to ride out the storm on Otter Creek in Vergennes.


For Libby and I, yesterday was almost normal as a rainy day.   We had normal power, lights, heat, food.  The anchor never moved one inch.  We spent our time reading books and getting email alerts from people in other places. After sunset, the wind clocked around to a direction where we had no shelter and it got much less comfortable.  Still the anchor never moved and inch and we were fine.  Tarwathie is a stout old gal.  She kept us safe.   Sometime after 3AM, the wind stopped.


It is kind of bizarre being so aware of what is happening elsewhere while we sit out a hurricane.  It was never like that in the past.  Also bizarre, as I look outside this morning, the bay and the mountains are beautiful in the sunshine and completely unchanged; yet on the local radio we hear about all the Vermont people still in danger from the flooded rivers.