Rain today

[Rich Z]

Looks like the windspeeds are predicted to be relatively mild. Perhaps just at tropical storm levels. Hopefully, anyway. 2022 can't get over with soon enough for me. Worst year EVER in my life.

[85vette]

Already saw power company trucks southbound today in Kentucky and Tennessee.

[CHASZ51]

Got some heavy rain here and blowing to around 45- 50mph.

[Z06CutOff]

Tropical storm ripping across central FL right now, GL to anyone in the way.

[CHASZ51]

Over here now. 3.3" of rain so that was good.

[Rich Z]

Just got back from running Connie up to her cardiologist appointment in Tallahassee. Not too bad around here. Some rain (0.70" so far) and windy, but not especially so. No worse than just a typical thunderstorm. But the center is still heading this way, so things may change some over the next few hours.

[85vette]

Just got done with dinner after returning home from our Tennessee to Orlando/Lakeland run. I drove last night and picked up some gust in south Georgia around 30 mph but my wife took over around 7:00 this morning and she got spotty heavy rain and gust to 50 mph on the Turnpike and I-4.

The rain wasn't too bad, I think the heaviest fell before we got there because the ditches were overflowing. The best part was that there was almost NO TRAFFIC! We ran into more rain in Lakeland than we did in the Orlando area and saw a few downed trees along with debris in the roadways.

We were glad to get home though. Saw several wrecks along the way. People don't know how to drive anymore. We even had a Loomis Armored Car overturned on highway 84 near Quitman, Georgia this evening as we were headed home.

I did hear two people died as a result of downed powerlines in Florida but overall I think it was a pretty mild storm, at least compared to Ian.

Several semi's got blown over in the Jacksonville area including one on the Dames Bridge. It looked like they may have gotten the worst of the rain too, at least from what I saw on radar this morning.

[Rich Z]

Still raining lightly outside right now. So far we got 1.26" of rain. I expected we would get more from the storm, but I guess this was more of a media event. Perhaps to help take the focus off of some of the nonsense taking place at the voting polls. At least a magic batch of miracle votes hasn't shown up (yet) to take down DeSantis. I was truly expecting that to happen.

[CHASZ51]

3.5" total here. This could be it till next June.

[85vette]

https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/20...s-point-bridge


Glad this wasn't us. It was pretty bad on some of the overpasses we were on yesterday.