[Dr. Thorne]

1. Nova Scotia is in Canada. It's not "New England".
2. 80 mph winds can hardly be called "barreling" into anything.

[woodbutcher1963]

I am typing this from a dog show in Falmouth, MA on Cape Cod.
Slept last night in a RV on site.
The show was delayed by about 1 1/2 hours so the tent company could okay the tents.
It was actually worse Wednesday night.
We had much stronger thunder storms.

I am waiting to see Jim Cantore do a live broadcast from the Coast Guard base at Chatham.

[Don W]

Um, the phrase “New England” predates the United States. It described all the English colonies in the New World.

YMMV.