Timeline of events through the landfall of Lee

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AccuWeather Meteorologist Tony Laubach wraps up Lee from Wells, Maine, on Sept. 16.

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00:00 I'm meteorologist Tony Lovac in

00:01 Wells Maine here in Southeast Maine.

00:03 Lee has come and Lee has gone and

00:05 folks here are very happy with the

00:07 results not really dealing with

00:08 some significant impacts on that.

00:10 But still, though,

00:10 as we always like to say,

00:12 you hope for the best and prepare

00:13 for the worst and when we got here

00:15 on Friday folks were preparing for

00:17 the worst in the ways that they know

00:18 how barricading their homes from the

00:20 wind and possible storm surge that

00:21 was going to hit the seawall and

00:23 splash over a lot of the still with

00:25 fresh memories from the storms.

00:26 Back in December,

00:27 we talked to many of the residents

00:28 that are here on summer vacation.

00:30 Not really expecting to see

00:32 nor'easter type of storms this

00:33 early in the year,

00:34 but as we got here on Saturday,

00:36 it looked like a nor'easter you

00:38 would see in December minus the

00:40 snow and minus the cold.

00:41 Big bruising waves hitting the

00:44 seawall here in Wells.

00:45 It was funneling into traffic a little bit,

00:48 but really was more of a tourist site as

00:50 people were taking in the sights of the

00:53 waves here along the Seacoast during the

00:55 high tide early in the afternoon on Saturday.

00:58 As we got later in the day,

00:59 low tide kicked in and that really

01:01 translated to a treasure hunt and

01:03 really people just enjoying a beachy

01:05 evening as Lee moved on out.

01:06 The wind is still a little bit breezy,

01:09 but the sun coming out for a time and

01:11 folks out hunting seashells and

01:12 rocks along the seashore.

01:13 Even the seagulls getting in on

01:15 a little bit of that action.

01:16 Folks here in Southeast Maine.

01:18 Very happy that the impacts from

01:19 Lee were quite minimal and most of

01:21 them really just enjoying this last.

01:23 It's hard to say last official weekend of

01:25 summer, but a lot of people we talking

01:27 about for the summer.

01:28 Happy to have had the experience

01:30 and carrying away a lot more

01:32 memories of a very interesting

01:33 trip and a decent storm that folks

01:35 will remember mainly for the waves.

01:37 Reporting for Accuweather in Southeast Maine.

01:39 I'm meteorologist Tony law back.

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