In Case You Ever Wonder Why We're Here...

this afternoon we had a biker arrive at our front door, not looking too good and holding onto his arm. He was afraid he'd broken it. We brought him in, got him sitting down, and decided he hadn't broken it, but that his elbow wasn't so good. Got him something to drink, and eventually put him on the couch, lest he faint.
He and Colin (bike in the back) went off to the ER shortly thereafter. It's now almost three hours later...no word yet.
But, yeah, we do first aid :)

Busy place!

The new batch of summer interns for Cascades West are here today for their orientation. More about them to come!
We've also got a Worcester State College class meeting here; they're doing a survey of ice damage in the city (they were at God's Acre yesterday, and they're in Cascades Park and Cascades West today).
Will is here (it's his last week) working on signage.
And the DPW trucks are on the street, so we're making one last scramble to get branches out to the street. We've got plenty of downfall that we're just leaving in the forest--it is part of nature, after all--but we do need the trails and the cleared part of the property free of branches. We had a maple lose a limb in yesterday's wind that had been partly broken over the winter. It's still coming down!

At 9 am, it is 68.7 degrees and rising
44% humidity and falling
30.18 inches of mercury and steady under sunny skies
The brook remains at 4 inches even

Hang onto your hat! UPDATED WITH LINK

Did you hear the wind last night? Clearly all the trees that were going to fall down at Cascading Waters already have, as we didn't lose any new ones last night. It's quite a wind! We're only sorry that we don't have a gauge for measuring it.

At 9am, it is 57 degrees and rising; it's quite pleasant, actually.
96% humidity and steady
29.88 inches of mercury and falling; the radar map shows quite a bit of this storm is still coming.
We have had 0.08 inches of rain since last night; before midnight, we had 0.04 inches.
Stream is already up to 5.8 inches
Fire danger is NONE


We are very excited that we have finally gotten our new DPW trash basket! Out on the telephone phone on Olean Street is a brand-shiny-new DPW pole basket. We've agreed to empty it. We are hoping that this cuts down on the amount of detritus left in the parking area.

We had a great time with Bruce and Mike as they recorded a bit about Cascading Waters, as well as something about a mission trip to Poland. You can watch it tomorrow morning at 8:30 on WCCA. Thanks for coming by!

Cascades and visitors update

The Cascades are running fast! Come and enjoy them.
This afternoon, in addition to two hikers and one intrepid bicycle-pusher, the members of Princeton Arts Society visited to paint the Cascades and the brook. The bridge on Cataract Street gives a great view in both directions.