That was fun. Let's not do it again
any time soon.
Hurricane Toivo, as some people have
dubbed yesterday's monster wind storm, is in the slow and agonizing
process of dying down, leaving damage everywhere, hundreds of
people across the U.P. still without power, and two people still missing after apparently being swept off of Black Rocks. You didn't have to go
far to see its effects; in fact, I took this picture down the street
from where I live--
It's not often you see a tree leaning
on a house like a partying college student after six too many
drinks, but we had that chance yesterday.
Of course, you had people ignoring
warnings and the advice of police to gawk at everything that was
going on. In fact, all along Lakeshore Boulevard in Marquette
traffic crawled to a standstill not only because of hundreds of
people were driving around looking at the waves, but because those
very waves were washing over the street and stopping those very
vehicles. Police finally had to close the whole street just so crews
could try to get the water off the road.
It was so bad that places like Shiras
Park (by Picnic Rocks) was underwater.. Not that that stopped people
from going out there to take pictures, but the whole park was under
water.
Yikes!
The other immediate side-effect of yesterday's cornucopia of yuck? It seems as if every single leaf still on a tree
was blown off. Just about every tree in Marquette now looks very
skeleton like, perhaps appropriate for Halloween next week but still
a jolt to the system of those of us naively clinging to the hope that
winter may bypass us this year.
Once again, yikes.
Hopefully, things will be calmer today.
Hopefully, the flooded parks will drain, those without power can
turn on their lights, and someone figures out a way to put nice green
leaves on those trees stripped bare yesterday.
Well, to paraphrase a great American
philosopher, two out of three wouldn't be bad.
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