We have had some fairly high winds of late, temperatures are nice getting up to 17 on Sunday but the average is around 10 to low teens.

School starts today; the big school is still undergoing its outside renovations. Replacement of the brick face with a metal face and all new windows has a ways to go yet.
Two units of the teacher housing quadruplex are still boarded up, there was a serious break/enter and vandalism during the summer, I guess repair work is still being carried out.

Preliminary reports are that three temporary cabins at Hebron were destroyed by fire Tuesday morning.
Speaking to a German couple at the dock last evening they confirmed the fire. On arriving at Hebron on their boat they said the sight of three burnt cabins was disquieting.

The local Family who have been ‘care taking’ at the site for the summer were all OK and were expecting to be picked up by helicopter and brought back to Nain.
Someone from NG was supposed to go up and inspect the damage and hopefully file a report as to what happened.

Also thankfully the historic buildings were not harmed including the rental cottages.

Further to the aforementioned German Couple:

Here is their boat/home “Gypsy Life” moored at the dock this morning.

In two brief encounters which resulted in intense question and answer sessions [me the answerer] I managed to garner that the Paul’s are contemplating maybe wintering around Nain.
A lot of logistical work has to be done before the final decision is made.
One may wonder why they would want to do that; reading through their web site might help understand. Rough translation is here.