I watched the entire landfall, surge and wind yesterday afternoon up until about midnight, on YouTube, with Reed Timmer, chaser, pretty amazing and awesome, I never quite understood what a storm surge was and how it worked up until last night. In 1961, My Dad and I drove to Florida and discovered a little place called Clearwater Beach. It was undeveloped, the hotel was built around an old carasoul they had on the beach, it was closed in, rooms made with bathrooms of course, all knotty pine, in the center was a sweet little lobby with lamps and sofas. The town had an open restaurant with a counter, a drug store with beach things, and a few small beach souvenir shops. The town was full of fisherman, charter boat captains, and little stucco and cement homes. A lot of people made a lot of money draining swamps and removing the cypress groves, paving, building, paving , building. I don't know, it seems as if I wish I could go back in time. He moved down there in 73, Pinellas Co., and died in 86, I cared for him and rented a house in Seminole after that. I guess I hate development, as soon as I could I moved to live simply in the hills of Vermont, high and dry. It was such a beautiful place, but not for me. The storm was real bad, and will affect a lot of material loss. I am glad to see that the fatalities were low. Just rambling like boomers tend to do. Autumn has finally kicked in, we have not had a frost yet, but the woodstove has been lit for the season. God is Great and God is good, money will not get you into the Kingdom, but loving him will.

I watched the entire landfall, surge and wind yesterday afternoon up until about midnight, on YouTube, with Reed Timmer, chaser, pretty amazing and awesome, I never quite understood what a storm surge was and how it worked up until last night. In 1961, My Dad and I drove to Florida and discovered a little place called Clearwater Beach. It was undeveloped, the hotel was built around an old carasoul they had on the beach, it was closed in, rooms made with bathrooms of course, all knotty pine, in the center was a sweet little lobby with lamps and sofas. The town had an open restaurant with a counter, a drug store with beach things, and a few small beach souvenir shops. The town was full of fisherman, charter boat captains, and little stucco and cement homes. A lot of people made a lot of money draining swamps and removing the cypress groves, paving, building, paving , building. I don't know, it seems as if I wish I could go back in time. He moved down there in 73, Pinellas Co., and died in 86, I cared for him and rented a house in Seminole after that. I guess I hate development, as soon as I could I moved to live simply in the hills of Vermont, high and dry. It was such a beautiful place, but not for me. The storm was real bad, and will affect a lot of material loss. I am glad to see that the fatalities were low. And how about that "Lt Dan"? Just rambling like boomers tend to do. Autumn has finally kicked in, we have not had a frost yet, but the woodstove has been lit for the season. God is Great and God is good, money will not get you into the Kingdom, but loving him will.