Back on June 6 I posted a little bit on the tropical storm that was just off the coast of AMI that day. At that time we were only six days into "Hurricane Season". We ended up with a good bit of rain, wind and high tides. We're now in the heart of what is typically the time of hurricane season when the frequency and intensity picks up.
Hurricane Season is holding true to form and once again today one of my favorite Jimmy Buffett songs which coincidently is titled the same as this blog is playing in my head. Right now
we're dealing with what has now been upgraded to Hurricane Hermine.
We got a ton of rain yesterday (probably around 7 inches), more rain today as well as some pretty strong winds which are currently gusting to around 40-45 mph. The high tide was exceptionally high today and very little water left the canal at low tide which was about 30 minutes ago so I'm thinking the overnight high tide is going to be very high.
We're safe, sound and far away from where it's going to make landfall. We just came back from the beach and a couple of the pictures below were taken from the same place where we usually sit for sunset. Even though by hurricane standards it's a pretty wimpy storm that is fairly far away from us it's pretty intense out there. It's gonna be a bumpy night for a lot of folks in the Big Bend area of the state and is gonna leave behind a lot of destruction. Mother Nature can be pretty dang powerful!
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| That blue dot is us |
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| Marina Drive is out there somewhere |
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| This is from the public beach earlier today |
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| On a normal day that volleyball net would be about 75 yards from the water |
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| This is where those great sunset pictures are usually taken. On a normal night the sea oats would be about 100 yards from the waters edge..............tonight the water is well past them |
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| Right before sunset. Hard to believe it's a Category 1 hurricane several hundred miles offshore! |
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| Surf's Up! |
