Maybe NECN reporters don't want to risk getting swept out to sea, but Rick Nohl and some other weather fans seemed to have no such qualms along the water in Lynn today. Nohl notes his camera was inside a waterproof housing.

Furious waves pounding Scituate.

Storm takes a bite out of Sandwich.

And reports she has yet to get hit by a flying rock, unlike the obviously tougher anchorwoman (toward the end of the segment). Oh, Shelby Scott, where have you gone?

Milton Brasher-Cunningham limns the view out the window of his Marshfield home:

...This morning we could see
the flooded road
from our kitchen window.
"Why do you think
they call it Canal Street?"
she asked, smiling.
The tide was coming in
again as I left for
work, thankful to have
four wheel drive. ...

On the North Shore, New in Swampscott describes, photographs coastal flooding:

... Both me and the wife had today off for Patriots Day, but I spent the better part of it watching my sump pit fill with water. After the high tide at around 11 am, we still hadn't overflowed the pit and then the sun came out, saving the day. ...

Kathleen Valentine reports:

I was driving out Atlantic Avenue yesterday morning and there was this big white van and banks of lights and all sorts of TV equipment and, sure enough, there was Jim Cantore - the Drama Queen of the Weather Channel - getting spastic over the storm headed this way. I wish the Weather Channel wouldn't do this. Every time there is a storm scheduled they send someone up here to broadcast it and then everyone I know who lives in other parts of the country and who knows I live in Gloucester calls to make sure I am okay. I am okay. Jim Cantore is a little spastic but I'm fine. ...

found blog entry for history of use of "nor'easter". was an error from another site that was never corrected. term came from journal of philip vickers fithian. someone filled in names of what they thought were his references. "up the bay" is the delaware and "cohansie" is greenwich, new jersey...his home town.

Nor'easter or northeaster?

And is it my imagination, or did Harvey Leonard have a maniacal look on his face when he led the 11 o'clock news (yes, beating out even the Entwistle story), like some mad scientist whose creature has just come to life?