The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
The channel is at least 19 nautical miles of open water, often with big swells, power tides, ships and ferries plowing up, down and across, but recently much smaller vessels have been crossing too.
Because in addition to sustained hurricane winds and storm surges, Florence could bring as much as 40 inches of rain to these areas and that could cause catastrophic flooding to the Carolinas that could last into next week.
When it was 480 miles away from Hawaii yesterday morning, it was pushing larger than usual waves across the Pacific onto the Eastern side of the big island.
Somehow, the Pilgrims saw their dire situation as a demonstration of providential power, especially after a giant wave picked up the flimsy boat of a scouting party on a stormy December night.
That your release of GPT, especially ChatGPT, sent such shockwaves through the tech world that now Google and Meta and so forth are all scrambling to catch up.