It was quite the rollicking wind whacking we’re slowly shaking off. It was an old-fashioned three-day(-plus) nor’easter.

For years, even decades, we’ve weathered what were routinely labeled nor’easters but that often lasted little more than a day. This recent 50-mph-class (75 mph officially recorded in Tuckerton) blow was the consummate classic, though hopefully not a sign of insufferably long storms to come. Our Island can only take just so much classicism.