While the playbook of scary terms and network windbreakers are begrudgingly returned to mothballs, the system, now 140 miles to our south, continues to breakdown and fragment showing less fortitude than the throngs of area mothers ushering kids to the bus stop for the first day of the new school year.
As winds continue to diminish, high surf conditions appear to be the only remaining remnants on tap for the next 24 -36 hours so if anyone is looking for their painter or landscaper during that window, be sure to check your local beaches.
As a lifelong resident of the outer Cape I was the third generation to pick up the mantel in the family construction business. In my early twenties, I called the Cape my home on weekends as I spent several years working for a variety of off-Cape commercial construction companies. My site supervision resume includes two supermarkets, two HUD projects, a funeral home and a handful of steel industrial buildings as well as various restaurant and office remodels.