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Storm effort called ‘great training exercise’
by Outspoken on Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:47 am
Storm effort called ‘great training exercise’
By Sharon Kiley Mack and Diana Graettinger
Staff Writers Bangor Daily News
MACHAIS, Maine — Monday dawned with a brilliant sun, clear teal-blue skies and fall leaves exploding into blinding reds, yellows and golds. The overnight rain had scrubbed the air clean, and damage reports from Tropical Storm Kyle were minimal in Down East Maine.
“Hurricane? What hurricane?” Annie Calder asked as she bought her morning coffee in Machias, referring to Hurricane Kyle before it was downgraded to a tropical storm. “The rainstorm that struck Down East two weeks ago was far more intense than Kyle. Last night was just like a spring storm.”
People across the Canadian border in New Brunswick reflected a similar sentiment, although residents on the eastern side of the fast-moving storm saw some damage. Kyle weakened after it made landfall near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, but the area east of it around Shelburne, Nova Scotia, “bore the brunt of the storm,” according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s Web site on Monday.
There were no injuries, but the storm did knock down trees and power lines in that province.
“Kyle hit the Maritimes almost to the day of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Juan, which ripped through Nova Scotia in 2003 causing about $150 million in damage, leaving eight dead and thousands without power,” the CBC said.
At a wharf in Cutler on Monday, Linda VanTatenhove was bailing out her motorboat. She and her husband, Rodger, both of Grant, Mich., have been spending the summer as caretakers at Little River Lighthouse, which stands sentinel a short distance from Cutler Harbor on Little River Island.
“I bailed out more water than this two weeks ago,” Linda VanTatenhove said. “We were certainly lucky that it slid past us. Cutler Harbor, which is normally exceptionally calm, was alive last night. We came down to the dock and saw all the boats bobbing and opted to stay in Cutler last night. It ended up not being bad at all.”
Washington County Emergency Management Director Michael Hinerman agreed.
“As it turned out, it was a great training exercise,” Hinerman said. “We shut down the emergency command center by 9:30 p.m. [Sunday].”
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/90131.html
BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY SHARON KILEY MACK
By Sharon Kiley Mack and Diana Graettinger
Staff Writers Bangor Daily News
MACHAIS, Maine — Monday dawned with a brilliant sun, clear teal-blue skies and fall leaves exploding into blinding reds, yellows and golds. The overnight rain had scrubbed the air clean, and damage reports from Tropical Storm Kyle were minimal in Down East Maine.
“Hurricane? What hurricane?” Annie Calder asked as she bought her morning coffee in Machias, referring to Hurricane Kyle before it was downgraded to a tropical storm. “The rainstorm that struck Down East two weeks ago was far more intense than Kyle. Last night was just like a spring storm.”
People across the Canadian border in New Brunswick reflected a similar sentiment, although residents on the eastern side of the fast-moving storm saw some damage. Kyle weakened after it made landfall near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, but the area east of it around Shelburne, Nova Scotia, “bore the brunt of the storm,” according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s Web site on Monday.
There were no injuries, but the storm did knock down trees and power lines in that province.
“Kyle hit the Maritimes almost to the day of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Juan, which ripped through Nova Scotia in 2003 causing about $150 million in damage, leaving eight dead and thousands without power,” the CBC said.
At a wharf in Cutler on Monday, Linda VanTatenhove was bailing out her motorboat. She and her husband, Rodger, both of Grant, Mich., have been spending the summer as caretakers at Little River Lighthouse, which stands sentinel a short distance from Cutler Harbor on Little River Island.
“I bailed out more water than this two weeks ago,” Linda VanTatenhove said. “We were certainly lucky that it slid past us. Cutler Harbor, which is normally exceptionally calm, was alive last night. We came down to the dock and saw all the boats bobbing and opted to stay in Cutler last night. It ended up not being bad at all.”
Washington County Emergency Management Director Michael Hinerman agreed.
“As it turned out, it was a great training exercise,” Hinerman said. “We shut down the emergency command center by 9:30 p.m. [Sunday].”
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/90131.html
BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY SHARON KILEY MACK
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