After the October 2009 Cape Ann Nor’easter

Cape Ann is located 43 miles north­east of  Boston,  Mass­a­chu­setts. It includes the  towns of Rock­port and Glouces­ter. Glouces­ter is America’s first sea­port estab­lished in 1623, some 7 years before Boston. A nor’easter is a cir­cu­lar storm were the winds come from the north­east with the worst hav­ing hur­ri­cane force winds. The pho­tos in this gallery were shot after a small nor’easter storm with gale force winds. I can only imag­ine how bad a really big storm would be, like the  storm of Sep­tem­ber 1991, which was made into a movie about the Andrea Gail in The Per­fect Storm. The  sea­port of Glouces­ter has lost more than 5000 fish­er­men in the last 386 years.

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