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The View from My Window: Friday 11Nov11

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I know I’m a day late but I do have an explanation.

View from my window 11Nov11

Heavy rain started here in Nova Scotia about midnight Thursday and continued on until supper time Friday. In all, about 56 mm (just over 2 inches) came down in that time period. I took this photo Friday morning from my office window, thinking that the rain was benefiting the view: making the sere colours of November deepen and glow.

We had a dinner reservation with some friends in Halifax (about a two hour drive) and were amazed to see the water on the way: ditches running white water rapids, streams flowing through fields and down hillsides where there had been no streams a day earlier, standing water making hay fields resemble rice paddies, but the roads were fine even through Truro which sits on a flood plain at the end of the Bay of Fundy (highest tides in the world!)

Truro is located at the far right end of the water in this diagram (just off the map) – past where it says tides are 49 feet (15 m).

bay of fundy tides

Ah – but supper time was low tide. By the time we traveled home at 10 that evening, matters were different. We saw a car abandoned in the Sobey’s parking lot, water up to the middle of its doors. And we found all the access roads through & around Truro closed because of flooding, necessitating some quick thinking and back roads to get home.

None of my photos turned out because it was too dark – but trust me: what looks so benign in my front yard was anything but at high tide in Truro.


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4 Comments to

“The View from My Window: Friday 11Nov11”

  1. On November 14th, 2011 at 1:28 pm Barbara Says:

    I remember Truro so well. Some awful events occurred there but as my stay was extended I was able to watch that marvelous tide come in every day for a week. I’ll never forget that sight.

  2. On November 14th, 2011 at 10:27 pm Debbie Says:

    The Fundy tides are pretty amazing and I think we sometimes take them for granted here, Barbara.

  3. On November 21st, 2011 at 12:59 am stacybuckeye Says:

    That is a beautiful picture with the rich colors of fall. Glad you made it home. I would have been trying to convince my husband to find a hotel for the night!

  4. On November 21st, 2011 at 7:33 pm Debbie Says:

    Thanks, Stacy. I was actually thinking about the hotel – but we had another couple in the car and I didn’t want to appear to wimp out LOL

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