I’m not a lawyer, not even close. My law education consists of the time I spent watching each of the 271 episodes of Perry Mason at least three times. But I do know this; "When someone threatens to...

The ocean at Cahoon Hollow was deceptively calm yesterday evening. No sign whatsoever of what's to come. We’re about to have a hurricane. Anyone who remembers Hurricane Bob knows that hurricanes are not to be taken lightly. Evacuation of Cape Cod, the Friday of Labor Day? Not going to happen. In the early nineties, with Bob, we had no power for days. I contacted three of the four couples

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warning update as of 11:56 pm: Hurricane Warning Current Map : http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at2.shtml?5-daynl?large#contents HURRICANE EARL LOCAL STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1156 PM EDT THU SEP 2 2010 …HURRICANE EARL MOVING NORTHWARD OFF THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST… .AREAS AFFECTED… THIS LOCAL STATEMENT PROVIDES IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND RECOMMENDED ACTIONS FOR PEOPLE AND MARINE INTERESTS IN SELECT [...]

Today was a ballbuster – starting with the purchase of a new chainsaw, two gallons of gas, some files,  more flashlight batteries. But otherwise a sunny, hot day, finding me glued to the National Weather Service for the 8 am advisory, then out to the big boat for one last round of worrying and fiddling. [...]

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First off, I am sorry to be posting so late today. But, Hurricane Earl is heading now towards the Cape and will maintain a 2 Status. This requires us to prepare for some very damaging winds and possible multiple days of power outages. I have been to the market and stocked up on a few extra canned goods. We have secured what we could in the yard and have tested all our oil lamps. Hubby has just cut and singed the new wick ends. We are as prepared as we can be. The telephone has gone through...

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It's the day before we are supposed to get hit with a major hurricane here on Cape Cod. People have been pulling their boats out of the water all day and the tourist are heading back home. I put all my deck furniture away and brought in my plants. Tonight while picking up Sienna at soccer practice I saw at least 15 huge electric trucks heading down Cape. It's good to know that they are on top of things. I think the last big hurricane we got (Bob in '91) we lost power for about a week. In that...

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