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just one Iota

slams a wesry continent

'nuff climate for ya?!

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warm air in the Gulf

churns ponderous and rises

beach-slap waves harder

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clouds stream westward

Eta breaks into the Gulf

and our seas rise

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clouds creep

counter-clockwise

a few drops fall

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Tropical Storm Cristobal is "here," but we're just under its fringe; hoping to get enough rain for the garden. The sky was more energetic when the last thunderstorm came through a few days ago. I know it's very different in southern LA, and I hope those people are okay.

092319

another cyclone
headed to Puerto Rico
Hurricane Donald

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Coastal Alabama after Tropical Storm Isidore

Great Blue Heron, disturbed by the storm, hanging out on a public beach.

 Unusual windrow consisting entirely of shrimp fecal pellets, coating the beach after the storm.

Last house on Dauphin Island, precariously perched at the high tide line, after the storm.

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our early East Asian ancestors knew typhoons
they may have known enough
to head for the hills
when the signs showed one was coming
North America was colonized mostly from Siberia
and Western Europe
places that don't know this kind of storm
one of many unpleasant surprises
for multiple waves of colonists

090518

the long arms
of Gordon fill the creeks
the cyclone dies

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storm moves east it sprinkles here

Pine Beach, Alabama, 2002

An unusual storm windrow mostly made out of favreinid fecal pellets. Only time I've ever seen this on the beach, though I have seen one in a rock core more than 100 million years old.*

The windrow was quite extensive. It consisted almost entirely of fecal pellets of callianassid burrowing shrimp. This green-gray blanket was deposited by Tropical Storm Isidore. How did the stormsort out just these soft & fragile cylindrical pellets?




*West Appleton oil field, Jurassic Smackover Formation, samples from a couple of miles underground.

Ghost crabs toss their balls away

See the little hole near the left side of the image? That's the crab's burrow, which it was cleaning out after a storm (Tropical Storm Isidore).