Hurricane!

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Stewart is in fine form as he moves into “day two and a half” of his telling the tale of covering Hurricane Ophelia.

Tampa Bay usually gets more than 3" of rain in September, but not this year.

The reason it’s so dry and hot? Thank both Hurriance Katrina and Hurricane Ophelia. Katrina sapped the moisture in the region as she headed for Louisiana and then Ophelia formed and not only absorbed moisture but blew dry winds from the Carolinas right over Florida…

Lots of posts comparing hurricanes to women.

As Ophelia tap-dances in the Atlantic Ocean approximately two hundred miles from land without a clear destination, the most common sentiment expressed is she is a typical woman. Why? Ophelia has been a difficult hurricane to forecast, because of current weather trends. Originally, forecasters thought she would make a small loop in the Atlantic before making landfall between Savannah, GA and Charleston, SC. While Charleston is not out of danger at this moment, our level of danger has progressively decreased - for now at least. The main issue with hurricanes is they are forces of nature we cannot control; we can only prepare, respond, and if needed move out of the way.

Sounds like Hurricane Ophelia was easier on New England than the Carolinas.

We are spending tonight on the very end of the Cape Cod peninsula, Massachussets, in a very pretty town called Provincetown. We hope to get some photos tomorrow morning. We came through here in some very heavy rain today, apparently the tail end of hurricane Ophelia. Crazy thing was as we drove along the freeway earlier in the day was seeing all the cars and trucks that were parked on the side of the road because of the heavy rain. We couldn't quite work out what was happening to start with as the rain was no heavier than we get in most of the storms at home. However once the rain eased up a bit the traffic rejoined the road.