Here’s a little update on Fay, the tropical storm.
After she crossed the peninsula of Florida at about her mid section cutting the state in half from south west to north east, she got just off shore and sat
for hours and didn’t move. It must have been more than 12 hours she sat there. When she finally started moving it was at 2 miles an hour. Ugh! She moved for about 2 hours and STOPPED! again. At that point I was thinking that someone should get out and give her a push.
The reason it was so important to get this storm going had to do with her direction. After she crossed the state once, she decided she was going to come back across. Yeah. She went north of where she had been though not by much which meant those of us that got rain and wind with the first pass got it again as she went back across. The trip back seemed worse too.
So she finally picked up speed and little more and got far enough away that my area is seeing some sunshine and the winds have died down. The catch to this all is that it is Florida and it is August all that water has brought plenty of steam to go with our sea breezes and we still have these massive afternoon thunder storms. It may be a while before we dry out.
I guess the up side to it is that I think it took care of our drought situation. Not that we needed that resolved all at once. Then again, be careful what you ask for. Sometime Mother Nature is inclined to give it to you.
Cheers
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