Submitted by Fred Bodin:
We didn’t get a tornado, as predicted, but we did get heavy rain. It flooded Main Street in downtown Gloucester, and I called it the “Main Street Canal.”
Riding along the banks of the Main Street Canal
The storms were moving at 30 mph, and conditions for funnel clouds were popping up here and there. One was sighted in Danvers. Locals and visitors on the street were notified on their phones about the threat. Some tourists asked me what to do. I told them to find a brick building that has a bar and a wine cellar. But really, we know Jack about tornados (or even have shelters), and we tend to be cavalier about devastating hurricanes. Blizzards – Light the candles, crank up the wood stove, open the wine, and belay the shoveling until it stops. Snow storms in New England we know, I’ll take them any day over tornados, earthquakes, and hurricanes.
Good Morning Gloucester 
I’m so glad you didn’t have a tornado! We have plenty out here, they are not fun or exciting and the sirens are not to be taken lightly when they sound. Seems you all don’t have too many basements up there, so for safety as well as the obvious, a true wine cellar is probably wise advice. Be sure and carry a corkscrew at all times:-)
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Great post, Fred! I like your advice. Just like you called it the “Main Street Canal”, when our lawn floods at my parents’ place in Ballouville, CT, we call it the “Ballouville Pond”….
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