... window thermometer is registering 61°f, looking across the parking lot i can see banks of snow along the sides of the streets ... it's that time of year ...
... the kids got off the busses, almost immediately we we informed that we were sending them back home ... between early morning and late afternoon the kennebec river rose almost twenty-eight feet, what was to be called "the five-hundred year flood" ...
... if you look closely, you can see that the surface of "lake ticonic" extends south past the old mill complex all the way to the horizon ...
... having helped ralph tuttle muck out his trailer after this flood, i'll cross fingers that this year we'll have a kinder and gentler thaw ...