>Sun is finally peeking through spots. To the south it looks better, to the north, still solid clouds. Having been in real hurricanes (Fran was NOT fun) this was almost a non-event (although those folks flooded and with trees down wouldn't agree). The bad thing about these tropical storms, it can give folks new to the area a false sense of safety. Then when a REAL one comes along, they don't prepare.

I remember Ernesto two years ago. Our daughter just started working, and being a fresh driver, I rather drove her to work (which was just three miles from here). Well, guess what, had to drive around, and luckily I knew the streets well enough to know a way. The bulk of the rain came around noon, and they just decided to close shop around 1:30... so I had to drive there and back while almost all the streets leading there were either stuck or flooded in places. I got there and back, but had to drive around a lot. Of course, two hours later there was no water lying on the roads - the drains work, they just weren't designed for that throughput.