Tropical Depression #1

[Steve_Cox]

Looks like this years fun is about to begin.

[gasmanptb]

hip hip horay

Can't wait for it to be over.
Cecil

[rampage]

I really hate this time of year. I do contract work for Florida Power & Light (I was just in your hood yesterday Steve at the St. Aug Sevice Center). Its quite demanding. I think I need to get back into sells

[Miriam C.]

That means all you teardroppers on any coast keep your heads up or down as needed and be safe.

Or you can come up here for a couple of months and suffer the heat.

Best wishes
Miriam

[Steve_Cox]

:( That means all you teardroppers on any coast keep your heads up or down as needed and be safe.

Or you can come up here for a couple of months and suffer the heat.

Best wishes
Miriam

Miriam,

We have had plenty of heat and humidity lately ourselves. This storm hopfully will bring some rain to central florida, they've had a long drought and many fires the last couple of months.

[gailkaitschuck]

If this one could send us a little rain, we'd be ever so grateful!

Gail (tired of drooping plants and summer water bans already)

[Chris C]

Keep your head down, Steve. Oh yeah, and tie down that beautiful teardrop.

[Ira]

The stores will probably be nuts down here today, even though it's now just a disorganized tropical depression and supposed to come in up north in the state.

[Steve_Cox]

The stores will probably be nuts down here today, even though it's now just a disorganized tropical depression and supposed to come in up north in the state.

Hey Ira,

Even though it is "a disorganized tropical depression" They gave it a name at the 11 AM report. Tropical Storm Alberto.

NOAA sez, "THE SYSTEM IS BEING UPGRADED TO A TROPICAL STORM. HAVING SAID THAT...THE SATELLITE PRESENTATION OF THE STORM IS NOT VERY IMPRESSIVE.... NOT MUCH ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS ANTICIPATED."

I have a crazy neighbor boarding up his house today....

[Miriam C.]

Well 11 days into what was supposed to be a bad season they needed to get something going. How would it look if they were really wrong and everyone bought early!!

This could be a good trend

Miriam

[Loader]

Good luck all you guys in central FL.

Figures, I am now in SC for the next couple of daysl Oh well, be nice to see that wet stuff fall from the sky.

[cracker39]

At least it sent us some rain today. That's the good news. The bad news? Just when I planned to do some touchup painting on the TTT. I have a tarp stretched over part of it, and taped on some plastic to try to protect the area prepared for painting. I guess it will blow over by Tuesday and I'll get it done. Next, go buy some angle alum to install as corner trim. I suppose I ought to get one of those metal punches from HD to put the holes in it for screws.

[Ira]

We got like nothing today--a slight drizzle on and off ALL day.

Just enough where I couldn't go out into the backyard and do any work on my countertop. So I had to watch TV and drink Bud all day.

I didn't complain, but tomorrow is supposed to be worse, and I have to drive down to Miami.

[cracker39]

It's 7:30 AM and we have a steady drizzle...the type that we need to soak the ground. I hope it revives the St. Augustine sprigs I put in the back and side yards a week ago. It's been watered almost daily, but most of it has dried out. We had some really hard wind yesterday and may have more today and tomorrow. The forcast is 80% rain today and tomorrow and 50% Wed. It looks like no outside work for me until later in the week.

[IndyTom]

Dale,

St. Augustine grass is one of the things I really miss living way off up here in the "north". I grew up right at the very northern edge of the range of St. Augustine according to the zone maps. My mom always had a nice healthy lawn of the stuff growning up. The stuff that grows here for grass is what we grew for hay in Mississippi.

Tom