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Storrow Drive now open to submarines, divers

Danielle Ouellette tweeted around 11:30 a.m.:

entrance to storrow by cambridge st totally flooded - at least 8 inches of standing water. the rest of storrow is bad too.

Around 1 p.m., Stephen Goldstein updated:

Storrow Dr westbound is a parking lot.

Will Rick roll us this weekend?

Matt Noyes at NECN predicts that after Tropical Storm Rick belts out Mexico today, its soggy remains will be carried by the jet stream toward New England and drench us on Saturday.

Should be interesting.

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Snow? Snow!

There are large flakes of snow out there, mixed in with the rain. Darnit, we haven't even taken out one of the air conditioners yet.

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French Toast Alert System caught completely off guard

* French Toast Alert Level: Low.

As Channel 4 puts it:

Snow!

OK, just a few flakes here or there, but the French Toast Alert System still needs to get the dust shaken off it, obviously.

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In praise of October

Hannah exults in the new month on the calendar:

... I admit: I want to kiss its claret-colored lips in thanks, in praise.

Because, to me, October signals a beginning - of autumn, of the year's end, of the last great shift before the winter settling. ...

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Sudden gusty storm knocks down trees

The fast-moving storm that just hit Boston knocked down trees across the city, Boston Fireman tweets:

A tree that fell on Cooper Street in the North End blocked the street and hit a couple of parked cars, while plunging trees on Greenville Street in Roxbury and Courtland Road in Mattapan took power lines down with them. A tree also fell across the road at Alwin Street and Dietz Road in Hyde Park.

Do the oak trees know something about the coming winter we don't?

Deb Geisler recalls what happened the last time we saw as many acorns on the ground as we're seeing now.

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They've got to be kidding: We could be facing drought conditions soon

This just in from the weather folks at Channel 4:

This sunny stretch continues. In fact, we'll get so much sun that we could see drought conditions in a week.

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