Tropical Storm Fay Update

We've been cooped up in the house for 3 days and we definitely have cabin fever. The rain has been relentless for the past few days and comes in waves along with the bands of the storm. You can see a band of the storm coming in over the ocean in the photo to the right. (I didn't take the photo, but wanted to show you want the bands look like.)

During one of the breaks in the rain today, we got in the truck and took a ride just to get out of the house and see how things looked outside. Plus, we were in need of a chocolate fix! There's something about being stuck in the house during a storm that makes us eat way too much... it seems like that's all we are doing. We'll probably each gain 5 lbs before this storm is over! (We did stop at the grocery store and pick up some cookies)

This storm track photo shows that the storm has already passed us by quite a bit. What it doesn't show is that all the bad stuff is to the East of the storm (where we are) and so we have been getting pounded with rain for the past couple of days while Fay just stalled over us. We had one tornado scare, but fortunately it was about 10 miles south of us and didn't come where we are.

Tim has been out of work for 2 days. JT has been out of school for 3 days and I have been having to share the house I'm used to having to myself with the two of them. Poor JT has already used up 3 of his allotted "weather days" so it looks like the holiday weekends will be shorter for him now.

During another break in the rains today JT and I went out so he could play in the puddles and do some skimboarding. He's not had alot of experience with it so he's just learning. He had a couple of good rides though. I was worried he was going to hurt himself and have to miss Karate graduation tonight. Unfortunately for him, that apparently was cancelled tonight. He's due to get his brown belt so he's pretty excited about getting it. He'll have to wait though. Unfortunately for Tim and me, this was also supposed to be a parent's night out and we were supposed to go on date. Hopefully they'll reschedule that too.

It looks like we'll have a couple of more days of rain, but other than that, it shouldn't be too bad.

You can view the rest of the photos we took today at
http://picasaweb.google.com/rtungett/TropicalStormFay

Hope everyone has a great weekend! We're looking forward to seeing the sun again... maybe Monday.

Tropical Storm "Fickle" Fay

For those out of town keeping up with us, here's the latest forecast for the weather here.

Wind: 35-45 mph; gusts to 55 mph; 1'-3' tide rise, bands of occasional heavy rain mostly Wednesday, becoming heavier and steady Thursday. Isolated tornadoes possible Thursday night; potentially 6-10 inches of rain.

School has been closed for the past two days and will be closed again tomorrow. Tuesday was really a wasted day off since we just had a bit of rain. Today hasn't been so bad yet here.... the wind is just starting to gust outside, but it has been raining all day.

Tim got a call this morning from his boss saying his work campus was closed, so fortunately she caught him before he left for work. Too bad she didn't catch him before he got out of bed and showered.

So, here the 3 of us sit.... still in our PJ's, watching TV, reading, playing video games... whatever. The lights have flickered on and off a couple of times, but so far we've had no outage to speak of. I'm sure that will change as the storm moves in more and the big bands of rain hit us. We are in an area that has a lot of trees and trees are always falling causing damage to homes and power outages. I just pray we get no trees falling in our yard. There are a couple in the back yard that make me nervous.

Another transformer just blew down the street - lights flickered. I better post this before I lose my connection totally.