The Wrack

He stands athwart history, yelling: what the heck is happening?!

Learn the story behind a new tool to assess your property's flood risk during coastal storms.

Low-lying coastal areas are altered when rain and snowmelt combine with tide and wind.

The 35th Laudholm Nature Crafts Festival had it all!

High sustained winds and very large waves, both aligning with high tide, created a perfect storm on December 23, 2022.

The January 18, 2022, storm left its mark, but could have been worse.

A load of snow, powerful winds, storm surge, and frigid air kick off 2018.

Its too early to tally the full damage from Hurricane Matthew, but I watched closely as four research reserves in our national system took the brunt of the storm.

2-3" of rain today. Flood warnings. Coastal flood warnings. A super moon high tide. "Multiple hazards in effect," declared the National Weather Service.

Really, quite a nice afternoon for a walk.

I've always loved our old bowl-and-chain gutters on the Coastal Ecology Center.

The following was published in the Biddeford-Saco?Journal Tribune Sunday edition, 8/30/2015. (Continued from Remembering Katrina, Part I.)

Ten years ago this week, Category 3 Hurricane Katrina left nearly 2,000 people dead, hundreds of communities uprooted, and more than $100 billion in damage along the Gulf Coast. Adding in Superstorm Sandys devastation in October 2012, just two events swallowed the equivalent of: five months of Medicare spending, or two years of the federal education budget, or four years worth of the Federal Highway Trust Fund, our national gasoline tax-funded infrastructure bank that is now running on empty. So much money, washed out to sea.