Another hurricane gone by

Three hurricanes in Central Florida, and all of them on the weekend.

It’s a conspiracy, I swear it!

Cancelled Crown Tournament, cancelled the tournament this last weekend, and despite the fact everyone else has gone home here at work, we here in our department are still here. Blinking hurricanes have no sense of timing. How about a nice Tuesday landfall for a change?

Well, on Saturday, figuring we had nothing else to do; we actually drove to the coast to take a look at the storm coming in. Got some good pictures too! It wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be, but, the winds were blowing at about 35 mph or so, maybe 40, enough for the sand to sting quite a bit, and enough to whip the waves into quite a lather.

We even say some surfers trying to get a ride, but they were not having much luck, the waves were to close together to actually get out to the good waves. They were swimming as hard as they could, but could not quite get out there.

So we returned home after hanging out and getting some good pictures of the waves, random birds, and silly surfers, and getting a surprise in the fact that Quizno’s was open (where we had lunch). We did not really need to batten down the hatches, because the windows were already taped, and the carport already was stashed away. The wind started blowing really hard late Sat. night, but the worst came Sunday morning through Sunday night. It wasn’t as bad as Charley, but almost. The tree in the back yard did fine, but this time the wind was blowing from as slightly different direction, and there was a limb that occasionally hit the house. The occasional *thud* was a bit disconcerting, but no damage to the house. We did keep power despite we seeing the occasional transformer flash like green lightning (with the accompanying boom), which was the greatest blessing; because other people here at work do not have power. Unfortunately with the power company’s resources stretched so thin, it will be awhile before power will be restored.

The good news (well for me) is that Martin will be in town on Tuesday, so I can try to get some kinks out of my new fighting stuff, but no good tournament practice for Crown… Assuming a hurricane is not going to blow crown away…