After a very stormy day and night, today ended on a clear sky and sunny note. Some rural areas are without power and may be until Thursday. Sections of town experienced outages overnight and campus and surrounding area had a two hour outage this morning between 10 AM and noon. Luckily that was between my classes, but many were cancelled if not held in a room with windows -- larger lecture halls do not have windows, so there was no source of natural light. The work day ended 11-1/2 hours after mine began with a meeting to learn about the new collective agreement draft. Members vote to ratify over the next two days.
Water and wind can create such damage. Huge boulders sit in the middle of the causeway from the mainland to Cape Breton -- these were placed there by huge waves of a storm surge and used to sit on the ocean floor. It seems very surreal that 30 foot waves will carry something the size of a compact car and just drop it in the middle of a road. Waterfront areas experience great changes in amount of shoreline. Rivers and creeks carve new routes through the land. Man-made structures suffer greatly -- bridges and roads washout, structural integrity of buildings becomes compromised, and crops and landscaping are damaged. Cleanup, repair and rebuilding occur, showing the resiliency of people living in the path of such storms.
The selection today has lyrics that speak to the power of the ocean. It is bluegrass and a bit country. Enjoy!
Muddy Waters -- Seldom Scene
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