The Connecticut River is expected to crest in Connecticut (after flowing south through Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts) some time on Wednesday. The legacy of Hurricane Irene is not yet over, but life (and clean up) goes forward.
September is days away, a high tide season for spiders, who overnight have spun new webs and are already open for business after the hurricane.
The sandy crescent that faces Long Island Sound is newly arranged with beached sea life and holdfasts that once provided anchorage for kelp, now torn loose from their home under the Atlantic.
Change is in the air itself. Mother Nature has done some major housecleaning, sweeping clean with blasting winds and driving rain. Trees, limbs, water, insects, nuts, seeds, spores – scoured from their moorings and moved to new locations. The weak, diseased and damaged have been pruned; life goes on.
Chainsaws buzz and crews work in sunlight and near perfect conditions to deal with power lines, tangles of wire and tree limbs – with the help of heavy machinery.

Roiling water will continue moving debris – and all else it picks up along the journey – back to the sea.

For help with reporting storm-related damage to farms, a link to Connecticut's official site. To ready for another blast, access the National Weather Service (NWS) storm cloud logo to reach the NWS site.