Hurricane Isabel hit this blog hard. No electricity for ten days, no cable modem for thirteen. And one of the things I discovered while I had no electricity is that I really don't enjoy drinking wine in the dark. (I'm taking this to be a good discovery, indicating a lack of alcoholic tendencies.)
But now I'm back, and ready to start reporting again.
The word from local vineyards is that they weren't all that badly hurt by Isabel. Mostly, they got their whites in before (or just before) the hurricane arrived, and left the red wine grapes on the vines. Those grapes seem to have weathered the storm okay - either they weren't so ripe that they were going to be badly hurt by the rain and wind, or the storm passed quickly through the area, or the grapes had had so much rain all summer long that a few more inches weren't going to make that much of a difference. Bottom line, though, is that they came through the storm okay, and should be in good shape when they're finally harvested.
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