Heavy rain pelted Talbot County through most of the afternoon. The beacon of the Hooper Strait Lighthouse on the campus of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum was barely visible across St. Michaels harbor.
Most of the Talbot Street merchants in the village were closed Saturday with the Acme, Characters Café, The Big Pickle and Carpenter Street Saloon remaining open for business. Several of the shops and some of the homes in the village were boarded up in preparation for the expected high winds.
Several boat owners were working frantically to haul their vessels in the rain. At the Miles River Yacht Club, picnic tables were placed upside down to keep them from being blown into the swimming pool.
On Route 33 just north of the village, several turkey buzzards hunkered down on the branches of a dead tree, ominous specters of things to come.
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tod engelskirchen says
It does seem that Talbot county residents are taking this one a lot more seriously than we took Isabel. Got our bathtubs filled and plan to enjoy the wait.