Fickle Fay Fading Away

So, our Tropical Storm Fay has decided she has spent enough time in the East Coast of the Sunshine State and decided to head out west toward the youngest member of the Lee Clan in Panama City, Florida. As the weather.com radar map shows, she will be hit with some pretty severe rain over the next few hours.

It is interesting, at least to me, here in The Birthplace of Speed, we did not get all that much rain, especially on the coast. Given the configuration of Fickle Fay, the "eye" was rather large, measuring about 70 miles. As she froliced up the coast line, the "eye" stayed right along the beach. As a result, yesterday, from Ormond Beach to Jacksonville, there was only light rain. The worst rain we got was when the top of the storm and the bottom of the storm passed through. Out west of here in Sl-Ocala, they got more rain than we did here on the coast. Amazing but most hurricanes are.

I drove around a bit today to see if I could find any more orange pylons blown over, and saw this

Not quite as potentially dangerous and this, but, ah, for the want of an anchor line. I don't think you could ask for a better place to sink a boat though.

I then headed down to the beach. I knew all was well when I saw seagulls out and about.

No tourists out in the surf today, thankfully.

But they didn't totally stay off the beach.

It appears we lost a fairly significant amount of sand and wonder what the beach will look like when this all settles down.

It appears the major rainstorms have left and we will continue to monitor this.

Oh yeah, the hoons are still out there, this time in my old hometown.