Tail end of a hurricane

Yesterday New England caught the end of Hurricane Hanna, which has caused devastation in Haiti.  

The day felt very hot and humid.  It was almost like arriving at Doha airport at 3 am last summer and feeling as if we were in a steam room with a hairdryer.  Except that this was perhaps without the hairdryer (and I never worked out whether that had been the weather or the aeroplane).  It was such a relief when the rain finally broke in the afternoon, and then it rained spectacularly well into the night.

I was at the Berkeley Centre (where the Anglican studies programme is based) for a welcome picnic (indoors, obviously).  More than one person said to me, "You must feel at home now that it's raining!"  Clearly, Britain has a rainy reputation.  In any case, I was definitely not the only person in that room appreciating the rain!

I couldn't get over the intensity of it all - the humidity, the rain, and all this was when the hurricane (reduced to a storm by this time) was barely even near us.