You have so much love and concern for so many. All sentient beings.
But the trees... of course you are concerned about the trees. Your beautiful trees. I am sure you will be sending them lots of love leading up to and through the storm. We can send our prayers out to you, your property, all in the path of the storm and also the beautiful trees.
@jeanne-mayell you know, Jeanne, at first i didn't think too much about Henri, being that it was ''only'' a Cat 1, nothing to be overly alarmed about. That is because i live on the Gulf coast, and these things happen more frequently here. But the Northeast isn't built for tropical storms, just like Houston isn't built for Arctic temperatures. So i will be praying for you. And for your trees- i really do understand how important they are to you.
When a storm is coming, all you can do is try to prepare (and gather all the pet carriers together), and then just breathe, and try to look for the beauty, in spite of all the destruction, that every storm brings. But i am hoping that it will all just go as smooth as Smokey Robinson:
Soft and warm, a quiet storm
Quiet as when flowers talk at break of dawn
@jeanne-mayell I’m envisioning you and your home surrounded by light. Please stay safe and know that we are all thinking of you. Please let us know how you are doing when you get a chance.
@jeanne-mayell Done! White light of protection headed to you, your family, and your property!
May you see only the awesomeness and magnificence of the storm and may you, your home, and trees come through safely.
We were not harmed by Sandy or Irene, although our woods turned into a lake and some kids from another neighborhood got a canoe and showed up in our back yard, which was hilarious.
That is reminiscent of my fond childhood memory of putting on rubber boots and walking around in the flooded woods by our house in the days and weeks after heavy rains. Huge frogs would mysteriously show up and start laying eggs. Tadpoles would hatch, and turn into more frogs. We'd catch tadpoles and watch them grow in an aquarium. And wood ducks would fly in and hang out until the water dried up.
To this day I have recurring dreams about a sinkhole opening up in that area and a beautiful spring forming.
Dear Jeanne (and all others in Henri’s path)……… sending prayers and protection your way. Be safe.
@jeanne-mayell Also thinking of you and everyone in the path of Henri. Much love, light and protection for you, your family and your property, specifically. May you be surrounded with that giant angel skirt and bubble of protection!
Thank you, all! This morning they say the storm is going to turn west. Did you do that? LOL. As we watch its path tomorrow, if it continues to move west, I will direct all those amazing prayers to those in harm's way, and focus later on preparing our property for future storms.
We are concerned for those who live along the coasts, Eastern Long Island, Rhode Island, and inland Connecticut and central Massachusetts. We have a few community members who live in these areas. The storm surge is expected at a moon tide (high tide during a full moon) which is the highest tide in a month. Also it's a slow moving hurricane so it does more damage as it lingers in one place.
@unk-p, we are well prepared for winter snow storms here in New England, for multiple foot-deep snowfalls, we even frolicked and dug our way out of ten feet of snow in 2015. I've seen several hurricanes in my life, always enjoyed their magnificence. But now with climate change escalating, combined with so much development uphill from us in which water-absorbing woodlands have now been cleared, we now must build in ways to divert fast-moving flood waters, and we have not yet done that at the level we now need.
Even when a storm has downgraded from hurricane to tropical storm, it can devastate. Tropical Storm Irene (8/28/11) was the worst storm I've witnessed in my life. I was in Quebec at the time it hit and was awed by the churning skies and winds even up there which was hundreds of miles northwest of the storm. But in Vermont which was in the storm's path, downhill flooding washed out homes, farms, and roads along mountain streams and rivers.
Many people just focus on the storm's rating which is based on wind speed. But there is more to devastation than wind speed - like the slowness of the storm, the amount of rainfall before and during the storm, storm surge, whether it hits during high tide or worse, a moon tide, and your location within it. This storm will hit southern New England coasts during a full moo which brings the highest tide of the month.