Storm Update #4: Scenes from the storm

This will have to be a photo-free update, due to AT&T's lagging cell phone network.

Primarily, you will be happy to know Daisy has relieved herself. I stopped by Duke Patrick Woods, the woods at the end of our street, and she simply can't help but mark her territory when she's in there. So crisis averted.

Mainers are nonplussed by this storm. We drove about 15 minutes away to South Portland (SoPo!). We meaning the dog and I. It's raining pretty good, but it's not impressive. It's breezy, maybe around 30 mph around the ocean. It's certainly not weather to be out in.

Unless you're from Maine. I counted six runners jogging through SoPo. There were more cars out than you would see on a normal Tuesday morning. We spotted a half dozen cars pulled over at the side of the road near a jagged, rocky beach. I rolled down the window to take a photo and the phone/camera got sprayed with water from windblown surf. My phone now smells like the ocean.

Then we went to Arby's. There were four employees and one customer. I spent $5 on a pair of sandwiches (one for each of us). There is no way that Arby's is making a profit today.

Up next: Beer drinking with First Year, my friend from two blocks away, whose wife is a first-year PA student. God help him. And my liver.

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