The Kosmala Blog

Happy Thanksgiving!

A major storm hit here locally yesterday and is continuing today and tomorrow. It was supposed to hit in full force in Boston just in time for the marathon, but it really didn’t do much and even the Red Sox managed to get in a noontime game. No, the weather decided to take an early vacation up to Maine, where it slammed into coastal towns, like the ones I live and work in.

Wind gusts over 80 mph were recorded and there were something like 127,000 people that lost power. I unfortunately was among them and we didn’t get our power back til this morning. I got to leave work early since three of the four roads you can use to get out of there were closed due to flooding. So we got to take the fourth one and double back up to Portland. Even when I got home we had no power, so I hammered some nails in the fading light as part of putting together a set of drawers.

The wind was just ridiculous. The front door of my workplace was blown of its hinges, and a 60-foot tall pine tree in the back was completely uprooted and fell over. Light poles down by the back cove in Portland had fallen over like dominoes. It was a pretty impressive display.

I normally enjoy this sort of thing, but having no light in a 49-degree apartment with no heat wasn’t all that enjoyable. Luckily those crack lineworkers at Central Maine Power had it back up today. It probably helped that we share the same power line as a fire station and an elementary school.

I just want to point out that it is currently snowing in Minneapolis. Eight days ago it was 82 degrees F out. What’s up with that?