Waiting for Spring on the C & D Canal

Chesapeake City, March 27, 2013 — While the calendar says we’ve entered a new season, we are waiting for that tentative nudge from spring.  And while we wait for those warming days things are quiet at the old C & D Canal Basin in Chesapeake City.  But it won’t be long before this lone work boat has lots of company.

The old canal basin on the C & D Canal in Chesapeake City.

Mother Nature Brews Up a Line of Thunderstorms as Dark Clouds Gather Over C & D Canal & Chesapeake City

Around 4 p.m. this afternoon, as the National Weather Service issued severe weather warnings for Cecil County, the sky quickly darkened over Chesapeake City.  By all appearances mother nature was brewing up an intense line of thunderstorms for  Cecil County and we were in for a dark and stormy night.  But Cecil appears to have escaped the worst of the pounding and the storm brought badly needed rain.  Here are a few photos from Army Corps of Engineers headquarters and C & D Canal Museum in Chesapeake City.