Stephanie Giunta practices being a TV reporter at the very end of Long Wharf early this afternoon.
The folks at the Fort Point Pier, meanwhile, watched as Fort Point Channel rose and then began to flow over the seawall (it's hard to tell, but that's Vivien Li of the Boston Harbor Association and Fort Point resident Anne Salemme on the right):
Fort Point Channel resurgent
Yes, it's bad out there - Ed Harding at Channel 5 just put his glasses on.
NStar reports 23,047 customers without power - including 378 in Boston and 1,046 in Cambridge.
Lauren Sommer reports:
Umm, if someone lost their sailboat, I found it on Carson Beach looking a little lost and lonely.
NStar reports 4,852 customers without power - 175 in Boston and 460 in Cambridge.
The state shut Morrissey Boulevard between UMass and Freeport Street around 11:15 a.m.
A roving UHub photographer couldn't believe it when she saw workers at the top of the Great Dome, working on the tarp covering the oculus being installed there:
NStar reports 2,575 customers without power across its service region - including 842 in Cambridge and 315 in Boston.
On Channel 5, Bianca de la Garza just advised people not to go down to the beach to look at the angry sea - right after John Atwater checked in from Scituate, where he stood by a seawall, looking at the angry sea.
A power line came down on Powell Street in West Roxbury, off Spring, around 10 p.m., knocking out power in the area of Spring and Baker, as far south as the Deutsches Altenheim.
The NStar outage map is beginning to light up, although all of the outages so far are small (exactly one customer in Newton).
Saul Blumenthal noticed that among the items the Waltham Shaw's put out on its Sandy table were shabbos candles, normally only used for celebrating the start of the Sabbath on Friday.
"Yahrzeit candles work better!" Greg Reibman offers.
Meanwhile, the Globe found some guy at the South Bay Home Depot who'd driven up from New Jersey to pick up a generator he'd reserved online. Seems the generator-desperate gentleman only thought to look up Boston stores after discovering generators were sold out from New Jersey to Ohio, which makes one wonder about the state of geography education in the Garden State.
A ton of kite surfers flocked to Revere Beach today to take advantage of the strong winds.
Maybe Adam blew away. Anyways, here's highlights from the press conference Governor Patrick just gave at MEMA headquarters.
Steven Hodges tweeted at 12:39 p.m.:
Was driving back on the Pike from western Mass and saw at least 50 power and tree trucks from out of state coming east!
UPDATE: Boston Schools are closed Monday.
WBZ is posting the list, although we really need Gary LaPierre to be reading it.
Latest GOES photo of Sandy, Sunday morning.
For more, see the French Toast Alert page.
Christopher photographed the scene in the water aisle at the Waltham Shaw's on Saturday night.
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