The Wind!

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Here’s a first for Jerry by the Sea – I’m letting our guest, Chuck take the wheel. That’s because he sent me a video of yesterday’s storm, with a caption attached …. and I think he sums up what it was like better than I do! Chucks’s an engineer turned dentist, with obviously a whole lot of writer in him.

Anyway, enough from me – I hope you all weathered the storm, and here’s Chuck’s email (with a big thanks!):

“Surf is up!  Leslie has turned into just a lot of wind, but it is atomizing the tops of the white caps and sending sheets of salt spray racing across the bay at speeds of 60-70 mph.  The noise is not deafening, but it is like the alternating sounds of a banshee and the moaning whine of a flock of jet planes at treetop level, but not directly overhead.  I tried to step out on the porch to take a photo, got my shot after some wrestling with the railing.  When I grabbed the door knob to come back in, realized I had been blown to the next cabin downwind.  By getting down low and clawing my way back, grabbing fists full of grassy clumps, I did return to our cabin.  Not sure the photo was worth it; it would be so much more meaningful if you could experience it in person.  I will send this and you can be the judge…”

So now you be the judge – Chuck could do his own blog, couldn’t he!