Hurricane Bill

There is much wind and rain overnight which continues all morning. We enjoy a light breakfast in our room, as we’re booked into the Pines famous Sunday Brunch at noon, and watch the Hurricane Bill coverage on the TV. The brunch is scrumptious and the highlight of our day. Both the fresh scallops and the shrimp are cooked in either Sambuca or Tequila and are extraordinary.
The Digby area got about 70mm of rain and wind gusts up to 90 km/h during the morning. Hurricane Bill did not hit Nova Scotia head on but still managed to flood roads, knock out power to thousands, cancel flights and ferries, and drench everything. The storm surge arrived at the same time as high tide in the early afternoon which created some extremely rough seas on the eastern side of the province particularly at Peggy’s Cove, which has sustained some property damage too. Some of the roads we were on yesterday are washed out and now closed. What a difference severe weather can make!
It is a day for odd weather because in the afternoon the sun appears in Digby for awhile and we’re able to take in some of the warmth and have a short swim in the heated outside pool. There is some debris around and many flowers have been flattened but otherwise everything seems to have fared pretty well. Black clouds quickly fill the sky in the late afternoon but we’ve resigned ourselves to sitting this day out at the hotel anyway.