Mother Nature finds ways to restore balance, which is the way of things, but you can’t help but notice that it’s getting harder for her to do that, writes…
I waited until high tide Thursday night, put on my swim trunks and undid the lines that normally keep it lashed in place. I had to wait until full high tide before there was enough water under the heavy 16-by-8-foot dock for it to float.
The warmth of the ocean, while pleasant for me, is also what allowed Fiona to move north so quickly, to be so big and dangerous.Article content My father told me that he found it comforting, that it was nature’s way of regulating itself. He explained that hurricanes were the way Mother Nature transferred heat from the south to the north, a lesson that stuck with me.Article content
The warmth of the ocean, while pleasant for me, is also what allowed Fiona to move north so quickly, to be so big and dangerous The wind was strong but not as terrible as the wind I recall from Hurricane Juan, which hit Halifax in 2003. During the height of that storm, I wanted to step out onto the front porch of my house to see what a hurricane felt like. I opened the door and immediately changed my mind.
That night, we cooked with neighbours. Someone had a goose in their freezer that was going to spoil so we cooked it on the barbecue, catching the dripping fat in a tinfoil tray full of veggies from our crispers. We made a sauce out of thawed blueberries and butter and had a lovely meal by candlelight with people who we had never shared a meal with before.
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