After Noel, or post 'Post-Tropical Storm', whatever that means

It is now Tuesday, a day after I started this post and 2 days after Noel left the Maritimes. I and many other Maritimers are still wondering what a post-tropical storm is, but many others are just hoping to get their power back and cleaning up after the storm. Although many parts of the Nova Scotia lost power due to a heavy rainstorm with wind, the east side of Nova Scotia was pummeled by Noel, especially the coastal areas. In some places the storm and damage was worse than Hurricane Juan. Noel pretty much destroyed Queensland Beach (at least according to the news). The beach is a hot spot for locals (i.e. live within a 2 hour drive) and tourists - it always had great sand and a nice surf. The sand is mostly gone now, as is the parking lot and the road is impassable (go to #16) - looks like it was hit by an earthquake, but all the damage was caused by the ocean. They figure it will cost $500, 000 - 1 million to fix this major road.

We were lucky here, only a slight blip in the power, just long enough that we had to reset all the clocks. Just across the river the power was out for a couple of days and others are still waiting for power in the cold. Oh, we had lots of wind and rain, but I've heard worse during a winter storm. We even have apples and leaves still on the trees.

A few pix, since my recent posts have been rather photo deprived.

Noel approaches & the jays feed up

Wind blown jay

back off! my stash! mine, you hear?!

Can I come in? It's cold & windy out here.
(Ok, so I actually took this today, but I think the sentiment was probably there on the weekend.)

After the storm

Lovely blue skies


And lots of standing trees, with leaves!

And the weather yoyo continues...

Following the snow flurry morning, we had ice in the driveway yesterday morning. I think the high for the day was around 6 degrees. This morning we woke up to a balmy 13 degrees and hit a high around 20 this afternoon. I think someone forgot that it is November. The plants are also quite confused - I found a spring wild flower blooming along the driveway.

Halloween in Brickton

doesn't seem to exist. No kids at the door, no ruckus, no nothing last night. Was just another night; I even kinda forgot that it was Halloween at all.