Sunday it rained all the blustery day and everyone stayed under cover. Today started off with clear skies that quickly clouded back up. Weather reports predicted steady winds of thirty mpg with gusts to fifty.
The river is remarkably calm, dappled, but few regular waves so water laps at the shore in slow fits and starts. Wind-whipped places appeare suddenly on the surface when bursts of swirling wind tousle small areas of water.
The tide is almost at the high mark and had been further inland yesterday judging from the smoothed area. Beyond that, while wet, the sand still mirrors the river’s dappled look made by past human activity. Three inches of rain we had did not smooth that area to any degree. Pollen still shows along the same area, though only for about fifty yards, where it appeared before the storm. It could be new pollen or old.
Trees lining the shore are whipped as brief gusts blow through them and most background noise is from the wind. No contrails were visible while the sky was clear and no boats of any type are on the river. One or two birds make quick flights over the water before returning to shore.
The amount of rainfall caused enough water to be discharged from three spots along the bank to wash about six inch deep sand layer away and expose the clay underneath. One of these showed a stream bed about six feet wide. The exposed area for the other was less than a foot. Two other places where small creeks continuously flow across the beach show enlarged areas of sand removal.
Only one place along the bank shows significant change. Here a huge chunk about fifteen feet square slipped down about fifteen feet to the beach, reaches the waterline and is staining the water as waves roll against the red soil. Two small cedar trees and a half dozen small hardwood trees sprout, undisturbed, from the top.
No debris at all was washed ashore by the storm. The beach looks cleaner than usual.
The fancy pier work has reached the shingling phase and should be complete today. The extension ladder is now gone from the low damaged pier and is nowhere to be seen. —-
