sandy amongst us

Today Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the Eastern Seaboard of North America. I won't go into a lot of what makes this hurricane significant from a meteorological point of view, but will instead let my thoughts and prayers extend to those who have been and continue to be affected by this storm.

Here, far inland like we are, not much is going on (yet). The satellite image (GOES Eastern Canada) looks like this around 10pm.

It has not really reached us yet.

Around town, we have been very fortunate so far, to my knowledge at this time. Power was knocked out for some of the city, but crews were able to restore power fairly quickly. Leaves are everywhere, and some light weight branches have been knocked down - that is all I observed while I was out at a meeting tonight. Winds are gusting to 67kmph at the local airport, but are expected to reach 90kmph (higher in exposed areas).

Otherwise, it seems business as usual.

We shall see what the morning brings.