Swollen Stream
Monday, April 16th, 2007
Warren, Connecticut. As some of you who live on the East Coast of the US know, we’ve all had a few days of intense rain. This type of storm is called a "nor’easter" because the storm moves from south and west to north and east (diagonally up the coast) and as it reaches New England circles back counter clockwise pulling water off the ocean and dropping it on us as rain or snow.
Our meandering stream is a torrent and lapping at the bottom of the bridge I built and am standing on to take this. It’s not a bad thing to wash out the gully every now and then, get rid of winter debris and get ready for spring flowers. Even with all of the windows closed, we can hear this roar in the house and its constant and both soothing and menacing at the same time.
Of course, with the invention of The Weather Channel and to a lesser extent CNN, what used to be just another storm is now a huge event, hyped to the max and dramatized with it’s own logo and music, all to sell soap and get us worked up. There have been enough cries of "wolf" in the past few years so that if, god forbid, another Floyd (our mini Katrina) came through, we might not believe it until it was upon us.
