10/16/18 Hurricane Damage

     For those of us who live in Maine, we see terrible pictures of the hurricanes down South but they don’t seem real. It’s hard to relate to the force of these storms when all we are familiar with are nor’easters and ice storms. Hurricanes do damage that last for years. I remember going on a field trip in college and having my professor of Ecology point out effects of the Hurricane of ’38. Hurricane Harvey dumped so much water on Texas that it actually put a dent in the Earth’s surface from the weight of all that water. Now that I have been through the remains of a hurricane with winds of 75 knots - not the 130 that hit the Florida panhandle - I have a whole new respect for the sheer power of wind and water during these storms. As we travel down the coast of North Carolina I have seen the damage that Florence did a month ago. The trees are brown. Just about every house is missing parts of the roof or siding. Everyone along the waterway has a dock and just about every dock is destroyed. And then, there are the boats that weren’t as lucky as we were. Here are a few pictures of what we have seen.