Business as usual Thursday at Red’s Eats.  There was still a line of folks eager for one last lobster roll of the season and no one is talking the accident a week ago that someone said “totaled” Red’s deck, rather than creating a problem Red’s diners now using the shack’s tables and chairs on the sidewalk in front of the old bank building. No word on whether the town will ask Red’s to pay rent on the sidewalk space.  Red’s deck is closed, I surname people hashing out how to get repairs done

Weatherwise, iI’s not supposed to be like this.  We spend the summer inMaine, catching the summer weather and the best lobsters you can imagine.  Since we spent a lot of time in the Virgin Islands,  we know about hurricanes.  We know September is a busy month heavy-weather wise. So, our plan is to hide here from storms here until late October.  That way e avoid storms and enjoy gorgeous fall color and weather.

But the plan is broken this year.  Here we are on the anniversary of that awful Hurricane Marilyn and other terrible September storms.  Our plan has been to avoid being in the south in September, because that’s where the storms are. But this year, this week, the plan failed.  We’re in Maine, prepping for a hurricane tomorrow.  Everybody is.  

Even Pat’s Barber Shop is full of storm, talk.  She’s not  too worried. She did say she’d like to put her car in the garage, but “We have too much stuff!” She says when she retires she will build another garage.  For her stuff.

Craig said he would be stopping by the town dock to pull his boat out of the water. Just in case.  “Better to do it now than in the middle of a storm.”  Tommy said he would be picking up some gasoline for a generator.  Nobody was talking about filling the pantry or staging a run to the store for milk and toilet paper like we used to do in DC at the first whisper of ‘snow’.  Around here it’s quiet, as usual. The kids are in school, and we’ll just have to wait and see what happens

This. morning the TV weather guy said the storm had moved a little further east.  He said that was a good thing and that now the storm might be a nor’easter rather than. a hurricane.  Our neighbor, Ann, says she’s been through a few nor’easters in the four years she’s lived here.  “Scary,” she said.  It’s dark and there is stuff flying through the air.