Fay still Keeps us Guessing..
Wed. August 20, 2008:
Well, if Fay has done nothing else, she has single handedly ended the 2 year drought in most of Florida and she isn't done yet. All the counties that have come under her path are not blue. We received over 4 inches at my house in 24 hours which was nice. No flooding here because it was off and on during those 24 hours. Hope she can continue to give the drought areas a good soaking without the flooding that Melbourne is going thru today. And it appears we will be watching this storm through the weekend. Oh NOOOOO!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008: Happy 55th Birthday to me!
Well officially TS Fay made its first landfall at Key West around 3:20pm on Monday and made its second landfall around 5am this morning at Cape Romano, just south of Marco Island. And the NHC had this coming in arond Ft Myers which it didn't. Heck they had it coming in at Tampa until 5am yesterday morning. IMO their forcast track for this storm moved every 3 hours and as I stated 2 days ago the safest place to be when this lands is Tampa because that is where it is forcasted to make landfall.. and of couse it came in about 200 miles south of the "dotted line" LOL The NHC is still not good for the landfall forcast even 2 days out much less 3 days out. Just a week ago it was suppose to have been an East Coast/Bahamas storm. Oh well thank goodness for WU! It is my understanding this storm still has a lot of traveling to do. It may get back out in Atlantic and then make a sharp turn to the west again and continue living! Let's keep an eye on it a few more days. AND let's not forget we still have Invest 94L barreling this way! My house has received little over 4" of rain in the past 24 hours.. 6am yesterday - 6am today and it is still coming down. From 6am yesterday to 6am today, my house has received litle over 4" of rain and it is still coming down.
Monday, August 18, 2008:
Well, SE Florida is out of the cone, for now again, but who knows with this storm... She hasn't followed any of the rules so far. Looks like I am going to have a pretty interesting Birthday tomorrow! LOL
Everyone in Florida and the Eastern Seaboard, we need to keep watching this carefully.
I will be in and out of here and over on Bob's blog most of the day today. And this site is very slow at times and about half of the comments are not postings. So sometimes some of the comments don't make sense because they should have followed one that didn't post LOL
Take care everyone!
Friday, August 15, 2008:
We finally have that storm we have tracked for 2 weeks developed into a named storm...Fay. Now at least we can have some data and tracking and regular updates. Now just hope it does not sit in the GOM in all that hot water before hitting anyone. Everyone in any part of the "cone" needs to get prepared.
Those "F" Named Storms have quite a history:
Fedric, Fran, Floyd, Felix, Frances, Fabian in 04 was cat 4 but was nice back in 97...and Florence usually behaves herself so far. LOL Do any of these bring back memories; some of them were memorable storms several times and still not a "retired" name; sort of like "Gordon" which should have been retired twice!
Decided to go ahead and put some of the storm tracking info here for us to have handy. These will change as the tracks change so they should stay updated.
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we are still having some rain and wind..can you believe it.. for rest of this week we have 60% chance of rain and winds from SW 20-30 mph... I guess we are still under the influence of Fay even thought south of the system now.
the storms is stalled and Skye (Melbourne) is in the sourther eye wall and getting flooded. really bad there. it should start moving back across the state tomorrow. we will be watching Fay even this weekend.. YIKES!
Oh yes, I had to go see it and leave a comment. that was the funniest thing I have read in ages... You handled it well!
Skyepony lives in Melbrourne and they have received like 14" of rain in less than 24 hrs and getting severe flooding.
she still has power and still putting up posts.. going to try and not evacuate because of the critters and her ponies.. it is the water that is the worse for them...
they have been in the eye wall, southern end of Fay for about 12 hrs.
sure hope that storm is nuddging to the N a little now and hope to pull off her area soon.
Skye, you are in our thoughts today!
sad about skye - hope all will be well.
Thanks Emmy, yes, my area just has to put stuff back where it belongs.. will get to that next week. But Skye's area got slammed with flooding.
it is back to work for me tomorrow and a busy day it will be.
I am going to miss this computer.... I have basically been on this website since I got off work Sat night LOL
Thanks for stopping by. Remarkably and stupidly IMO they even opened the schools here today. My wife is a teacher and went.
I went out to Home Depot and had to make all kinds of detours due to flooded streets. We had rain all day here in Sebastian, just now letting up. My wife said it was off and on in Vero where she works. Now we find out they are canceling school tomorrow, lol. Probably because of all the flooding here in the north end of the county today, I think the worst of it is over for us and we just need to dry out for a couple days. I notice your map is getting bluer though, lol.
Thanks for the concern and stopping by
JER
Having the worst winds and rain...tho really nothing here, now. Maybe 'cause the direction has changed.
One thing to mention...Lots of the water draining from Melbourne, et all, goes to the St. Johns, which flows North to J'ville. Some talk on how it will effect the river levels over the next few weeks.
Really glad to see so much BLU in you drought map!
Crazy Woman...that Fay!
Am doing fine. Been in my recliner since I got home, with my footrest up and ice packs on. Barring trips to the loo and to the kitchen for munchies and tea, after Hubby went to bed. I did make Hubby fetch and carry before then.
As for what I'm doing on here? I'll be heading to bed shortly. Just wanted to check my outie mail and the blogs for a bit. I've been good all day and am rewarding myself a bit! I have the leg propped up, BTW.
The knee is sore, of course, but not so painful that I can't stand it. It's hurt worse a time or two before, when I've had flare ups. And I have my Happy Pills to take, along with some anti-B's.
I didn't get to see my Ortho guy after surgery; just the nurses. He did speak to Hubby and gave him three pages of souvenir pictures. Which I can't make head nor tails of. Will take them in to my post surgery checkup and have him tell me what all he did. It was lost on Hubby. I'll call in the a.m. and set that up.
The dressing has to stay on for 72 hours. It's cotton batting under a thigh high white hose. Which means no showers. Ugh. I foresee myself doing spit baths until then.
At least, in the morning, I can have my usual cuppa. That was worse than not eating, as far as I'm concerned! LOL
I do hope all of you are doing well and drying out soon.
Personally, this is one time I'm glad to be a blue state.
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