In the Aftermath of Fay

Ok, looks like the storm is FINALLY passing. It has been pummeling Jax since sometime Wednesday. My apartment parking lot looks like a small stream with branches here and there. Some of the roads look like that too. Fences are down and crumpled all over this part of the city.

In other parts of Jacksonville, it is much worse. I keep wondering that, if a tropical storm was this bad, what would it be like if we were hit by a hurricane. That hasn't happened here since 1980, and the weather people keep commenting (perhaps a bit too eagerly) that one is long overdue. We seem to keep lucking out, but I hope that luck doesn't run out.

To all of you who have kept tabs on things and checked to see if I'm alive and not floating away or blowing away, thanks. Let's hope this is the only time for a major storm this hurricane season. My hopes, however, are not high. Seems if we get hit by one, we get at least two. For thosse of you who HAVEN'T been keeping tabs, yeah, I made it on through. I'm hoping you had your head under a rock the whole time, because I know pictures made it all the way to the news in Tennessee where we have relatives. I guess I'm a bit surprised at who did and DIDN'T check in; maybe I'm just being a bit touchy on that.

But let's not go there tonight. For the moment, all is well (and very wet) here in Jacksonville. And I'll leave it at that.