This rainbow has gone viral on Eaton’s Neck social media, so we thought we’d jump on the bandwagon.

There are many rainbow expressions out there, but the one I like best is no rain, no rainbow.
This past month personified that. It quite literally rained on the day of the Endless Summer 70’s Concert. After a season of perfect weather events, Mother Nature finally showed us who’s boss and we had to make the decision to move it to the firehouse.

The rainbow? The EN Fire Department had a tent still set up from their picnic which they kindly allowed us to use. They helped us get set up and all those who bought tickets came out, sat under wet tents and came together for a good cause and a fun day. The band was so good that one could only imagine a field of people listening on blankets down at Valley Grove. I think a new event was born, but the real rainbow was the community who came out to support it and make it a success.

Two nights later the real rain came, a 5 am thunderstorm that dumped a ton of rain on the Neck that
caused more flooding and bad beach erosion. It’s very hard to find a rainbow here, but by Friday we
had a contingent of TOH highway and construction personnel out touring and talking. You’ll find a
drainage report inside this issue. No concrete solutions yet, but we’re trying. The rain is the repeated
weather stresses overcoming the newly installed system. The rainbow, I hope, will be a system that is modified to work better, because we knew its weaknesses early.

I’m writing this on the first full day of fall and its beautiful outside. Please keep chasing rainbows everyone.

Ryan Cote
POENB President