claudia's surf city

fair warning: on block island or manhattan or in missouri, we can be a little salty
Block Island ferry

10.31.2012

island refuge

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Shelter from the storm.  Barrett took me in at her 100-year-old house with a tower (in view of my place down on the ocean). She also to...
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10.30.2012

beachfront property

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The scene on the morning after. Everybody on the Island is out gawking. The road in front of our houses is destroyed, the freshwater pond ...
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Destruction

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- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Corn Neck Rd,Block Island,United States

block island report 8

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How dare it be beautiful and sunny this morning? I have yet to go inspect the damage in the ayem, but it is grave. The road was eaten up. ...
10.29.2012

block island report 7

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 They say the worst is over. The seas took half of the road in front of our houses with it. The houses are ok, and we even have power. Jus...
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block island report 6

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Bailed! At the dying of the light I escaped the beachfront for higher ground just before the road was closed. And the rain came.

block island report 5

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This is not the ocean! This is the calm, protected, tidal Harbor Pond. Hannah's Hideaway is taking on a bit of water under the Frenc...

block island report 4

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The power is on and off. Rumors fly that it will be shut down at some point. Sea foam also flies, like cotton balls across the road. One of ...
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block island report 3

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Your weather broadcast from the front lines. Waves came over the road between me and John and across the street at the Beachhead. Water fi...
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surf's up

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I am shouting commentary during this video, but you can't hear me at all. I am saying:     "High winds, check.     "High t...

block island report 2

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The house is shaking, buffeted by the wind, but not as badly as I've felt it before. Enough to wake me up, though. Looks like the worst...
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10.28.2012

block island report

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All ashore who's going ashore! The wuss boat, the last one off island before the storm,  left at 12:45, bearing my closest relation...

weathering

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The wind began in the night, with an undercurrent of waves, a little voice calling mama and unidentifiable rattles. I looked outside (abov...
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10.26.2012

hurricane prep

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Weather's a little different here than Austin (above). My cousin Glenn—of New Orleans, where they know something about storms—sent tho...
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10.25.2012

thinking of you

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If you can not see this chirbit, listen to it here http://chirb.it/pPOPeD Check this out on Chirbit
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10.24.2012

happy trails

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There is live music everywhere in Austin—in the parks, on the streets, in the bars and even at the grocery store. We stayed in a fab craft...
10.22.2012

youngest and oldest

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The Lo Ladies had a blast at Barton Springs in Austin, Texas.
10.20.2012

Not lone stars

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- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Elgin-Kusen Berger Rd,Fredericksburg,United States
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10.19.2012

20 years of Lo

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With the lo ladies at Austin, Tx. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: E Dean Keeton St,Austin,United States
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10.18.2012

off again

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The weather is now divine But I've left for another clime. I thought about Boston But decided on Austin So I'm leaving the nor...
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The sister of the President of the Garden Club, a former journalist (People, Life) and now vacation rental property manager on an island once known as Claudia's Island, Claudia has honed her bedmaking skills and seldom travels without a truckload of substandard chairs.
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