Aug 20

The Day After Fay

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Update 8/20/08 1:15pm We made the news on CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/08/20/tropical.storm.fay/index.html

Fay is gone. Horray! Here are some facts about the storm.

  • St. Lucie County officials estimated 20 to 30 percent of the county’s roads still are closed Wednesday morning due to flooding.
  • The county has received at least 10 inches of rain and there are 5,000 homes without electricity.
  • Tropical Storm Fay has caused the worst flooding in at least a decade, surpassing the aftermath of hurricanes Frances and Jeanne in 2004.
  • An estimated several thousand homes have suffered flood damage.
  • All St. Lucie County public schools and government offices are closed Wednesday due to the flooding. Update 8/20/08 3:15pm St. Lucie County public schools are closed the rest of the week due to the flooding.

We were lucky - it appears we didn’t suffer any damage and we didn’t lose our electricity the entire storm.

Here are some pictures I grabbed from some local websites.

ST. LUCIE COUNTY - Heavy winds whip palm trees on Indian River Drive in Port St. Lucie at about 7 a.m.
PORT ST. LUCIE - Traffic sloshes through heavy rain at Port St. Lucie Boulevard and Veterans Memorial Parkway at about 8:30 a.m. Although there were still cars traveling along Port St. Lucie Boulevard, the typically heavily traveled roadway was nowhere near as crowded as on a typical work day.
PORT ST. LUCIE - Water from flooded swales spills over to US1 at Jennings Road in Port St. Lucie as intermittent rain showers from Tropical Storm Fay saturates the Treasure Coast on Tuesday August 19, 2008. Flooding along US 1 has been a problem for both motorists and pedestrians alike.

PORT ST. LUCIE - Seen from a car, the view in the northbound lands at U.S.1 and Lennard Road in Port St. Lucie on Tuesday evening.
PORT ST. LUCIE - Seen from a car, the view in the northbound lane near U.S.1 and Lennard Road in Port St. Lucie on Tuesday evening.

written by cybercjh