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.

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.

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.

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.

Rains, high tides flood Morrissey Boulevard.

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.

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. ...

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.

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

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.