First "contact" with Hurricane
"Fatigue Floridians" is actually a title for some local news article here in the Sunshine state in the previous week. Well, the 21st and last named tropical storm Hurricane Wilma was heading towards Mexico and made a sharp turn to northeast and aimed at Florida peninsular. At first, the anticipated time for landfall was around Saturday afternoon or early Sunday. But then the Hurricane sat over the Yucatan peninsular of Mexico for a day or so (moving at 2 mph, almost like stagnant!). So its landfall was delayed to early morning of Monday.Although, most comuter models from the National Hurricane Center in the U.S. predicted landfall will be around 200 km/hr from where I live - Tampa, the strong wind and some rainfall certainly got us overnight. We could see the palm trees surrounding us swinging and looked like falling. Then it came this morning which I and my roommates were wondering if we needed to go to office. In the end, I drove in the tropical storm surge for the first time. The road was pretty empty indeed, except that it was dark and quite some lightning. Apart from that, I would say it was not bad at all...adding to that, after 11am or so this morning, we had the sun out and some beautiful sky, too!
Well, Wilma did leave one thing behind to Tampa residences - the cool weather. We changed from enjoying 80-90 degree to higher 50s. It sounded like we got to Fall from summer overnight in a couple of hours. Now, I am expecting the best climate/season as people commented down here. Afterall, Fall is always my most favorite season, too (given the fact that I am from HK, similar to Florida, escaping from the summers which are occupied by Typhoons and heavy moonsoon rains is always awesome!)
posted by CalvinCK @ 9:53 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home