TD Fay

Saturday Mid Afternoon
I got off work around 3pm. We had to come in to finish quarterly closing. I finished what I needed to do by 3 so I went home. The sun even shone out between the clearing clouds now and then this afternoon. There’s still the drifting rain bands that come through but for the most part, that’s that for Fay. It’s scheduled to continue west through the southern parts of Alabama and Mississippi as a Tropical Depression. I’m sure it will bring a lot of wind and rain to those people, but for our part, we’re done. Now the clean up has to begin. We have a lot of sticks and leaves to rake up out of the yard. It will probably be five or six trash cans full, not counting the small limbs that fell. Our yard is pretty swampy too now, with a couple inches of standing water here and there.

In the six years I’ve lived here, I’ve seen a few threatening storms come through, but Fay’s the one that’s come the closest to Jacksonville and made the most impact on people because of how erratic it was.