{"id":7166,"date":"2017-02-02T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?page_id=7166"},"modified":"2017-02-02T16:55:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:55:58","slug":"noreaster-storm-with-no-name","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/previous-issues\/2016-2\/winter-2016\/noreaster-storm-with-no-name\/","title":{"rendered":"LAST LOOK: Nor’easter: Storm with No Name"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cynthia Sharpe is a 2015 graduate of North Carolina State University with a degree in English. A former communications intern with North Carolina Sea Grant, she continues her focus on creative writing.<\/i><\/p>\n In this October 2008 image, Outer Banks photographer Michael Halminski documents a nor’easter’s impact on a structure that had been weakened by Tropical Storm Hanna two weeks prior.<\/p><\/div>\n You hear that? No, I am no hurricane.<\/p>\n I see you peeking through the blinds, I am no local thunderstorm.<\/p>\n Step outside. A tornado, I am not.<\/p>\n But what I lack in intensity, So I am no tornado, But I am a blizzard, This article was published in the Winter 2016<\/a> issue of <\/i>Coastwatch.<\/i><\/p>\n For contact information and reprint requests, visit ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/contact\/<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By CYNTHIA SHARPE Cynthia Sharpe is a 2015 graduate of North Carolina State University with a degree in English. A former communications intern with North Carolina Sea Grant, she continues her focus on creative writing….<\/p>\n
\nThe chatting?
\nThrough your radios and flat-screens?
\nThey have so much to say about
\nThe storm that has no name.<\/p>\n
\nUp to the clouds.
\nYes,
\nThat heaviness,
\nThat darkness,
\nIt is me.
\nAnd I will span 1,000 miles.<\/p>\n
\nFeel my coming
\nThat gentle breeze softly fluttering the leaves on their limbs
\nBearing down on the blades of grass,
\nForcing the potted plants to lean in one direction,
\nThat will grow.
\nIt will intensify to over 35 knots.<\/p>\n
\nIs made up in duration.
\nSeven hours?
\nHA!
\nTry seven days.<\/p>\n
\nNo local thunderstorm,
\nNo hurricane.<\/p>\n
\nI am a flood,
\nI am cold to the core.
\nI am a life-taker.
\nI am significant.
\nKnow me.<\/p>\n