If Mike Nichols and Buck Henry were to write a 2012 version of “The Graduate,” they would have to alter only slightly Mr. McGuire”™s famed advice to Benjamin Braddock:
“I only want to say one word to you. Just one word ”¦
“Generators.”
The last time we were having this conversation, summer vacation was winding down as Tropical Storm Irene wound up to pound Connecticut with a haymaker, followed by the one-two whammy of the October nor”™easter.
Wish you had a generator then, didn”™tcha?
So it was with a “didn”™t we just do this?” element of incredulity that we caught wind of Tropical Storm Alberto meandering off the Florida coast, before heading out to sea, nearly two full weeks before the June 1 official start of the Atlantic hurricane season.
For once this spring, Connecticut has caught a break with mild weather and almost no flooding, a welcome respite from the deluges and windstorms of the past few years. Drought got you worried? Nothing that a little rain won”™t fix.
That”™s a little rain, not a lot ”“ and not a lot of wind. The big question heading into this year”™s hurricane season is whether Connecticut”™s trees, possibly weakened by last year”™s storms, will adequately withstand a fresh onslaught; and whether Northeast Utilities can cope with any similar repeat performance from Mother Nature.
In April, Weather Services International said cooler temperatures in the North Atlantic should result in an average hurricane season with 11 named storms, 6 hurricanes and 2 intense hurricanes, with a slightly reduced chance of any making landfall compared to previous years.
That”™s one down in Alberto, 10 to go.
Just one word ”¦
