You thought it had slipped my mind in all the chaos and to-do, right?
Hah! Fat chance.
Two weeks ago, Green fever dreams began washing ashore in chunks and shards on the pristine beaches of Nantucket Island after the catastrophic failure of a brand new offshore wind turbine blade.
And it was only half of the humongous, football-field-long blade that had shattered and fallen into the ocean. The rest hung forlornly off of the turbine tower like limp fettuccine, hanging on for another day or so until it dropped into the water to become a temporary navigational hazard before eventually settling on the ocean floor beneath the briny deep.
A massive section of a damaged 350-foot turbine blade from a wind farm off the coast of Nantucket that detached Thursday morning has sunk to the ocean floor, town officials said Friday.
The large piece of fiberglass “will be recovered in due…
