Loading ...I can’t speak for treefrog, Alex or aurum, as they are in the northern part of Florida. Course Alex was in Columbia during the storm, although I imagine his neighbors are reporting back.
I’m quite a bit south on the Venice/Englewood border. I’m guessing we are around 2-300 miles south of where the hurricane hit land in the panhandle.
We had some fairly strong winds at times, I’d say 40-50 mph and some rain, but nothing serious – we actually needed the rain here. No trees down, just a little debris, i.e. palm branches, etc. Fair amount of puddles on the roads but nothing impassable. No flooding. Nothing like Hurricane Ian last year, which was absolutely brutal Cat. 5 – 180 mph winds.
It does look like the storm surge up near Cedar Key was pretty brutal and flooded a large area. Must have been/is still, rough for them.
Once again, like last year, Tampa really dodged a bullet. I can’t imagine what that would look like with even a 10 ft. storm surge. There is so much water surrounding the area.