Teddy Kokoros recorded the aftermath of a mighty wind at the JFK/UMass T stop this morning.
Damien Drella reports that high winds caused the partial collapse of a four-story section of an apartment building in Saugus. Read more.
A National Park Service/Coast Guard camera on Boston Light, where the ocean meets Boston Harbor, recorded the sea's ragin' glory at 6:24 a.m.
Photo via Boston Timelapse, which reposts photos from Boston Light, Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights every hour.
WCVB gets the scoop: The weather lights are out for several months of modernization, including the installation of more energy-efficient LED bulbs (so just like the Citgo sign).
So no snow (so what else is new?), but the National Weather Service has a high-wind warning in place between 8 p.m. and 2 p.m., Thursday, with possible gusts of up to 60 m.p.h. here in the Greater French Toast Region: Read more.
State Police report an 18-wheeler rolled over in the rain on I-495 northbound in Westford this morning, spilling lots and lots of pineapples and forcing the shutdown of two lanes.
The National Weather Service has issued coastal-flood watches for the entire Massachusetts coast for Sunday morning and afternoon, because of Yet Another Rain Storm that could mean 1 to 2 feet of flooding. Read more.
Picture of a snow covered wheelchair accessible ramp
Last year, I responded to a neighbor who asked for help shoveling her driveway and accessible ramp since she could neither physically do it herself nor afford to pay someone to do it for her. I was happy to help!
The experience reminded me that neighbors who can't physically shovel or live on fixed incomes often have no option but to wait for the snow to melt. Without help, they can’t get to work, the grocery store, the pharmacy, or doctor appointments. Read more.
Jamaica Plain News reports the Arnold Arboretum lost some 40 "accessioned" trees, including a dozen hemlocks snapped in half - by a storm in December that brought both rain to already saturated soil and high winds.
And that means you'll have until 4 p.m. on Thursday to save your parking space, the one you've so arduously dug out (except in the South End and Bay Village, where space savers are never allowed).
Mayor Wu has declared a snow emergency for Tuesday, which means BPS schools and municipal buildings will be shut. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Pat Quintin files this snap of a cloudbow from a Green Line trolley between Lechmere and Union Square this afternoon
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission is out with some recommendations on how to keep your pipes from bursting with the temps making like a submarine and diving. Read more.
One of these days, years, decades, the state promises to do something about Morrissey Boulevard so it doesn't flood when it rains or somebody spills their iced Dunk's. In the meantime, Savin Hill Sailor shows us yesterday's Second Semi-Annual Morrissey Boulevard Challenge, which involved getting across and along Morrissey Boulevard when cars couldn't. Don't worry: The canoe was equipped with a paddle for when the winds die down or the sailor's arms get tired. Video.
The Charles, the Needham Line and the Long Ditch overflowing into Cutler Park. See it larger.
Yesterday afternoon, just before the deluge that gave us That Rainbow, the Long Ditch that connects two loops of the Charles at the Dedham/Needham line (dug by the busy-beaver colonial settlers who also gave us the Mother Brook), had overflowed its banks and was flooding the nearby marshes of Cutler Park. As it was designed to do. Read more.
This morning, Lisa Green walked from the North End to Rowes Wharf, where Boston Harbor was a lot closer than it usually is, like at the Aquarium, where the harbor consumed the harborwalk.
Kevin Whitely forwarded a friend's video of flooding on Commercial Wharf in the North End: Read more.
It was pretty dark and stormy looking over the Charles as our own Ron Newman made his way over the Longfellow around 1:30 p.m.
Earlier though, roving UHub photographer David Fisher captured a rainbow over Jamaica Plain, then a full up Fort Point Channel (on the South Boston side): Read more.
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