Fay,Fay, GO AWAY!

August 20, 2008
Fay
Filed under: Ship's Log — Captain Ned Small @ 3:25 pm

The high tide flooded the streets of Everglades, there are a lot of palm fronds and limbs in the road, the usual rush of rainwater, blocked drainage and tide, we’re used to this and it’s no big deal but I hope you folks a little north of us are alright, the amount of rain falling up there is unbelievable. Couple that with a stalled tropical storm and an erratic trajectory, …well, I’m not sure anyone knows where this will end and we’re not unpacking anything just yet. It’s always a major, communal effort to prepare for these storms, all the feuds are put aside in the onslaught of a hurricane, we help each other in the hope that we can get by this and renew the animosity a few miles down the road.

I haven’t seen one quite like this, even though it remains “tropical,” she wants to lay over Florida until she’s damn well ready to let go. A little stretch over the Atlantic, intensifying, maybe back on shore, maybe crossing north Florida and back into the Gulf, maybe she’ll swing south again and hit Everglades one more time. A few of us were taking bets on the exact point of landfall when she was coming across Cuba, we were reasonably sure that it couldn’t develop and it was kind of fun, now all bets are off the table.

Most hurricanes, by the time they hit Florida are moving pretty fast, not Fay. She wants to drill around the peninsula, maybe taking a couple of sortes off shore to build up strength and then come charging back in, we’re safe for the moment but there is a high degree of tension in the City.

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