Special Weather Statement

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
350 PM EST SUN JAN 27 2008

MAZ022>024-280000-
BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN...
VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET
350 PM EST SUN JAN 27 2008

...STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS AND BANDS OF HEAVY SNOW WILL IMPACT CAPE
COD AND THE ISLANDS THROUGH THIS EVENING...

AT 350 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED BANDS OF
HEAVY SNOW MOVING ONTO CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS FROM THE ATLANTIC
OCEAN. RADAR INDICATED THESE BANDS WERE WEAKENING AS THEY REACHED THE
CAPE COD CANAL.

EXPECT BANDS OF SNOW TO OCCASIONALLY REDUCE VISIBILITY TO NEAR
ZERO...AND BRING A QUICK INCH OR TWO OF ACCUMULATION THROUGH 7 PM.

IN ADDITION...NORTHEAST WINDS WERE GUSTING AS HIGH AS 45 MPH JUST BEFORE
4 PM...AND WILL INCREASE TO NEAR 55 MPH BY 7 PM ON THE OUTER CAPE AND
NANTUCKET.

THE COMBINATION OF HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS
TRAVEL CONDITIONS THROUGH THIS EVENING ON CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS.
BE PREPARED FOR POOR VISIBILITY AND SLICK ROADS IF YOU MUST TRAVEL.

CONDITIONS SHOULD BEGIN TO IMPROVE AFTER 9 PM AS THE SNOW LETS UP...
BUT STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS WILL PERSIST.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR
UPDATES. YOU CAN ALSO VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON
HOMEPAGE AT WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON.

Sunday Nor'easter

Snow, sleet, rain. Repeat.

Sometime overnight, a new storm arrived for us. One of those classic nor'easters, bringing a few inches of snow before settling into the above pattern for the rest of the day. It was simply gross outside and I knew there'd be no success in visiting the old driveway, already muddy from our earlier moving efforts.

I might've enjoyed making an early morning phone call or two to a few people to say "hey, we're in" and pass out the new number...but we have also discovered pre-Revolutionary War era phone jacks at the new place, so we'll have to have those replaced before there's a home phone...or sadly internet access (since I opted away from the expense of broadband...).

And I'd also not really had the chance to spend much time inside at the new house, so I was glad to stay home and begin sorting through the masses of cartons, boxes and milk crates we'd piled in the big back room.

It might seem impractical to begin with unpacking the books, but at least I was able to get them up on the shelves and their boxes out of the way. By the end of the afternoon, I'd managed to clear out some space...at least enough to allow for aisles passing through the remaining boxes, which I also sorted thematically by contents.

There was no sign so far of the silverware, but fortunately we'd thought to grab a few packets of plastic cutlery from the restaurant to facilitate dinner that night.

We did, however, discover a rabbit fur dog coat, which had been purchased for Emily a few years ago, but never really served her as anything more than a shawl. Anyway, she doesn't care for clothes much. So we tried it out on Badum, who was nestled in the bean bag chair. He seemed cool with it for a little while, walking slowly around the house humming "If I Were King Of the Forest"...but eventually he managed to squeeze out of it.

After all, he's been the busiest of us, being the only one in our household who can visit all of the rooms' furthest corners. Even he can't find the box with the silverware.

Truro's Head of the Meadow beach, as the first of this week's pair of spring nor'easters begins to batter the Cape. Not much gardening to be done in this, but no watering needed, either! 

A Mother's Day Nor'easter

A rainy and miserable sort of day here on the Cape, with high winds and occasionally heavy rains. All of last night's transplants have been watered in now, for sure, with as much as three inches of rain expected.

It would've been a lovely day to stay at home, maybe even on the couch in front of some old movies, but alas, work beckoned. Such a storm though we don't see too often in these warmer months, so I made sure I side-tripped over to Coast Guard Beach for a look at the surf. As you can see, it was worth the trip.