Monster Winds Blow In New England

Power is going off and on here in Portland, Maine. Heavy rains and winds. Snow from last night has disappeared.

Can you imagine running the Boston Marathon in this? Baseball season has been delayed for many schools due to wet fields, for weeks. At least the kids aren’t out in this today, trying to get to school.

It’s Patriot’s Day here, so there is no school on Monday the 16th, and for the rest of the week too. It’s April school vacation week in New England. Of the coast, old Cassie, our local Sea Serpents, must think this is a special day at the amusement park just for them. The extremely high Spring Tides are now being mix with this near “Perfect Storm.” What fun for the marine cryptids.

I’ve been without power for part of overnight and this morning. This makes the second time in two weeks. Last time it was for most of two days.

When I awoke this morning to find myself without power again, even though I live at the top of a little hill in this neighborhood, I also found my backyard was half-flooded. I wondered what today would be like.

I went to check on everything, only to find the basement flooding. No power for a pump, so I spent time blocking the cellar door with towels and old newspapers. Then I picked up everything except plastic bins off the floor of the basement, while walking around in wet socks. It’s an interesting “cool” feeling, if you’ve never tried it. Of course, I later avoided stepping in the water as I was dealing with the electrical plug for the pump. I don’t want to add a case history for anyone’s study of the Harry and the Hendersons curse. At least, there were no alligators swimming around in the water.

Wind is powerful here. The winds are suppose to get higher that the gusts of 55 mph we’ve experienced thus far. I’m hearing in other parts of the city, the power has been going on and off. And we are forecast to stay in the middle of the Nor’easter through Thursday, with rain coming down every day.

At least temporarily now, the power is back on and so now is my pump, working away at the basement water. And, of course, my internet too.

(Not to myself: Darn, I didn’t get a transistor radio like I meant to after the last power outage.)

I have some pre-scheduled items in line for posting today (just in case this happened), so seeing those here is no sign I have any email contact available for comment responses or to reply privately, as the big trees are falling throughout Portland, across power lines. Besides the branches, the ground is soaked and the massive root systems on some of the maples and oaks are giving way.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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