Day 18 - Hanna, or what's left of her anyway

Today was my first experience with a hurricane. Or, more accurately, my first experience with a storm that can barely remember that it used to be a hurricane.

Where are my flying trash cans?

What was left of Hurricane Hanna made its way across the island yesterday, dropping somewhere in the area of 50mm or so of rain on this end of the island. For something that had the entire eastern seaboard of the US shaking in their britches, it definitely didn't make much of a showing up here.

Two photos from Stanhope beach, taken right near dusk under heavy cloud. It was too dark to really capture the heavy surf so I went for semi-artistic and 30 second exposures for each. In the second photo, you can really see the erosion from the heavy rain off the dunes on to the beach.