It started off as a rainy day, been raining the past couple of days actually, and on the radio this morning there was news of a town that was missing its dock…

My Chemistry class is at the Saco campus, which is a converted mill building on the Saco River. As I pulled under the buildings to park in the lot near the river, normally a calm and slow-moving tributary, it rushed and foamed and roared like a locomotive. It was scary just to look at.

It was sunny after class as I walked back to my car, but the river still roared…