Will it be Lee or Collier? As Lee's my home county I think it preferable that Collier, one county south, host this particular get-together:
Tropical Storm Fay continued its windy and wet trek toward Southwest Florida this afternoon and forecasters posted a hurricane warning for Southwest Florida.That means conditions are developing that a hurricane could land within 24 hours.
Most computer models are in agreement: the small eye of Fay will come ashore in Southwest Florida. But that could be anywhere between southern Collier County and Captiva Island.
The timing of landfall is uncertain as well. Best guess estimate now is 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Hurricane Charley hit that area a few years ago as a Cat 4. Cat 1 Fay should be... well, a breeze in comparison.
UPDATE:
She landed in Collier and has not been a bad guest at all. Lots of lovely, sorely-needed rain.
UPDATE II: Fay the tourist criss-crosses Florida wearing alligator shoes and helping out Lake Okeechobee big time.
Posted by floridacracker at August 18, 2008 03:30 PMThe model has HF coming right over my house.
School started today, but is closed tomorrow.
I didn't go to NC this summer, but intended to use my hurricane makeup day for a four day weekend their in Oct. ..leaves would be in peak.
oh well, darn it.
Maybe you'll just get lots of nice rain and a bit o' breeze.
It's been pouring all day here.
We need the rain.. I am glad it is a little one..
It's the mean ones that can get messy, y'all know what I mean..of course. I am concerned about
the local wildlife thinking this state will condone
Katrina like behavior the next time we get hit with
an Andrew.
I was a bit relieved to see that she was still a TS, but remember how Charley was thought to be a 1 or 2 until he hit....but I'm thinkin' this will just be a little messy.
Either way, y'all be careful down there. Here in St Pete we're just waitin' for the rain. Which we really DON'T need....
Posted by: Tammi at August 19, 2008 06:52 AMMy son complained last night that they don't close the schools here like they did in FL when it rains hard as it did yesterday. "They don't have any hurricane days here" and I told him "No tornado days either".
I hope the storm pushes more rain our way, we sure could use it.
Posted by: Gmac at August 19, 2008 09:14 AMI sure wish we could say that all over Florida, Tammi, the water table is down over two feet statewide.
We really, really, really, need ten Fays.
So..Are y'all alive ??
Posted by: csason at August 19, 2008 12:41 PMAll present and correct.
Don't know about Nancy. She might have melted in the rain whilst having a puff outside.
Posted by: Donnah at August 19, 2008 02:05 PMahhh.. hurricun's are for smoking indoors..!!!
Posted by: csason at August 19, 2008 06:45 PMOh I forgot..On the CSASON scale this storm was a WUSS 1.
Posted by: csason at August 19, 2008 08:16 PMI'm here. My DSL has been out.
It was hurricane like, for sure.
High-high-high gusts all day long, and rain like a son of a gun.
That's the brutality of hurricanes, isn't it? Messin' up your interwebs.
Posted by: Donnah at August 20, 2008 10:42 PMFor the record...
All the people in Florida who are surprised by the flooding from a tropical storm need to move back home.
Posted by: csason at August 21, 2008 12:22 PMAre you being affected by the floods? All we're seeing here (in Calif) is a graphic of Florida with a storm superimposed on it and a "everything's underwater".
Posted by: James at August 21, 2008 07:35 PMStill waiting for Fay to show up here in Tallahassee.
Posted by: Carl at August 21, 2008 10:52 PMSometimes these slow moving storms just dump water
in pockets...
I live on the ridge, so we are high and dry...but
some areas are getting it pretty good.
If you ever fly low over most of Florida, you wonder
where people actually find a dry place to build, the state looks so wet. So it doesn't take much to remind people this is a swamp gator/everglades/springs/rivers state.
South Carolina lowlands is the same way, and parts of Georgia.
Posted by: csason at August 21, 2008 10:59 PMFay's over, but it's been raining since Monday.
Tammi, can you sing "Unclouded Day"?
Y'all getting any rain, Carl ?? Cindy ??
Posted by: csason at August 23, 2008 09:41 AM