Just saw the latest update of the hurricane track and it is looking a lot like the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, which hit Long Island and then entered Connecticut and tracked up the Connecticut river through Connecticut, into western Massachusetts, then Vermont. It was before my time but I saw pictures of my very young mother rowing a boat through my grandfather’s flooded farmland in the Connecticut river valley in Northampton, MA, near the Calvin Coolidge bridge, where route 91 is now located. If the storm keeps on it’s current track, it will pass about 20 miles east of our northern home. Just filled up the generator and fired her up to make sure she is running well. Our home is in the Hilltowns at an elevation of about 1,400 ft., so flooding is not a concern. However, unlike Florida, the power lines are above ground and surrounded by big Oak and Maple trees full of leaves, so we are preparing for the possibility of a prolonged power outage. Buckle up!
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