I saw something very strange today - Leaf Rivers
We had a scary Halloween here in Maine last night - a massive wind and rain storm.
And it persisted all day today.
The storm took down all the remaining leaves on the trees.
Today, while running errands, I saw the ferocious wind blow thousands and thousands of leaves down streets, crossing intersections like running water in a swift river.
It. was. surreal.
And when you drove through one, it was like driving through a stream - leaves obscured everything - and eddies produced Leaf Tornadoes in the middle of the road.
Yikes!
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In some towns in Maine, the town will do a "leaf pickup" in the Fall and Spring.
People rake their leaves to the curb and the town will pick them up with a giant vacuum cleaner thingy.
I think the wind took piles of those leaves and blew them down the street all at once - it was a solid mass of leaves moving in the roads.
Like a bad horror movie scene....
When I was a little kid, everybody burned their leaves on the curb - it was fun - and the whole town did it on the same windless night in October.
Fires burning everywhere.
The whole town smelled of burning leaves...
here in Vermont we lost at least 6 trees on the property and my bees hives blew over... not so much scary as really inconvenient and bothersome... it's still blowing 
I got the hives put back together with only a few stings but worse for the wear