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Westport walloped with wind and cold, but little snow.
Westport walloped with wind and cold, but little snow.
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Westport's recent winter wallop of wind
and driving wet snow is now officially
the Blizzard of 2010, the sequel, as
sustained winds of over 35 mph and
enough hours of low visibility qualified
this nor'easter as a blizzard. Westport
was spared the one to two feet of snow
received by communities to the north,
but slippery walks and icy roadways
created treacherous conditions that
slowed traffic in many areas. Motorists
struggled with frozen car locks and
windows, and the wind brought down a
few heavy branches, not a lot, but
some.
The first Blizzard of 2010 was a
winter storm and severe weather event
that hit New England between February 9–11, 2010, dumping 12 to 40 inches of snow across a wide
swath from Washington, DC to Boston.
Westport police reported no serious vehicle accidents, and there was very little property damage. It
seemed that Westport dodged a very large bullet.
But it was just too darn cold and windy to go out fishing.
However there was a flip side to this storm.
Power outages so traditionally associated with blizzards in Westport were mostly non-existent, and
holiday revelers had a lengthened Christmas vacation, an unexpected but appreciated bonus to the
holiday season.
Beautifully blue skies on Tuesday brightened a white landscape replete with iced-over ponds and rivers.
Stone walls wore their winter caps and fields were blanketed in an unbroken mantle of dazzling sequined
snow. Sand dunes became snow dunes, and wildlife seemed to enjoy the weather outside as much as we
enjoyed it from the inside.
Potato Hill got a real workout as area residents enjoyed some of the finest sledding in years.
A white Christmas was a little late, but nevertheless was welcome.
Left: Westport River north of Hixbridge. Right: Forge Pond.
Left: Like some great, tuskless wooly mammoth, this seasoned hay bale stands solitary guard over its
domain. Right: a red-tailed hawk surveys his domain.
Westport Harbor channel and the Knubble as seen from the Cherry & Webb sand dunes.
Left: a path up the Cherry & Webb sand dunes. Center: a Westport Rivers Vineyard vignette. Right:
Westport River south of Hixbridge.
Cuttyhunk Island seen from the cold, windy, and snow-covered East Beach.
The Westport fishing fleet and the seagulls were in for the holiday.
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