Woodpecker

 They don't come close to the house, and this time of year, the lighting is not great in the trees.

Black Birds are Challenging to Photograph

 

Deer Seen from Bridge

There are woods next to the main route into town, with a campground.  And deer, which can be very challenging to see.

 

Christmas Eve Liftoff on College Creek

 

Fall Colors

 

Backlit banner at 0800 does not photograph as well as the view 180 out, which captures the fall foliage.

Lost door with its mirror solves that issue; maybe it's the portal to another dimension.

Runaway Boat Damage

 We are calling the storm at the end of October the Oktober Flut.  There was flooding damage, wind damage, and wave damage.  And there was runaway boat damage, which was caused by the waves, where where caused by the wind.  Three weeks after the flut the seawall was still awaiting repairs.

New postings on the other blog

 

MICRODEM and the La Palma eruptions.

https://dem-musings.blogspot.com/ 

Flood aftermath

 0930 to 1030 on Saturday morning.  Water levels 3.3 to 3.25 feet MLW, but a lot of these show the debris left from the 4.9 foot max at midnight.  The rocks show the effects of waves breaking over the seawall, as does some of the larger pieces of wood.

Record Flooding at Annapolis

 

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/est/Top10_form_ft.pdf

The table uses MHH, so to convert to MLLW add 1.43 feet  https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/datums.html?id=8575512 

In addition to how sea level is measured, you have to be careful about the times, since many of the records for the tide gauge are in UTC (aka Greenwich or Zulu).

The local paper is reporting two prior high water marks that I cannot verify:

1.  "third-highest record of 4.98 MLLW set in 1955." NOAA says 4.583 feet on the hourly record (see the graph below), and it was Hurricane Connie.  Several NOAA listings give the height as 4.98, which I think is a typo.

2,.  "a 1993 storm ...  second-highest downtown flood recorded, with 6.17 feet above MLLW."   This is actually 1933, the Chesapeake-Potomac hurricane

Record water levels at Annapolis,  compiled from NOAA tide records.