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Last year a hurricane came up the coast all the way to Maine rather than being pushed out to sea, and a number of the coastal towns around us saw millions of dollars worth of damage despite how much the storm had weakened over cooler waters. A few days later I was able to get over to my grandmother's old house to check the damage for my aunt and could barely believe the devastation - piles of sand, seaweed, jersey barriers crammed against each other all akimbo, and mountains of flood damaged property waiting to be hauled away. All just from the storm surge.
Why a few days later, you ask?