Yes - you can cry or you can shrug your shoulders and move on. I prefer to SCREAM!

Sounds like an everyday 'what next' normal day in Florida, count your blessings..... some people had sinkholes!

Lou

That was the first storm of its kind since we put in the pool, patio, fence, and potted plants and things. It was also a little eye-opener as far as what all I'll need to secure or store during a tropical storm or hurricane.

I've only been a fan of his for about a year and a half, but I like Mr. Jimmy Buffett's advice:

"Breathe in, breathe out, move on."

Don't lament on the disaster, but look at the promise of new, future projects. Still, I feel a bit robbed. We didn't see any of that up here, just enough rain to almost, not quite, top off my rain barrel.

That super windy day cost me every single mango growing on my mystery tree. The same thing happened last year, and I still have no idea what it is. Maybe next year...

Love me some Buffet, Leekle! I feel robbed, too. A bunch of Amaryllis had JUST opened the previous day and now they're toast. My oh-so-fragile Gardenia blooms, which have NEVER opened before, were beaten off the shrub and are now laying on the ground. My fancy-schmancy Geraniums had just flowered for the first time.
Yes, I shall focus on future projects, but I'll always look back and remember fondly how naive I was, thinking I'd gotten a head start on Spring cleanup this year.
Slopfrog, oh no! That would so completely stink!

Weather like that happens every afternoon in the summer. This was indeed a nice dress rehearsal for t-storm season.

We haven't had a drop of rain in Sarasota. Everything is so dry, my lawn looks like a brown field.

Great story, Sheer! You have a talent for writing. You should send your story to the local paper. I bet they publish it.

Jane

Thanks, Jane! I love to write and have always wanted to do it for a living, but I hate rejection too much to try it.
LOL!

Forgot the picture...

That would happen in NY. I'd have all my orchids outside for the summer. After a thunderstorm, they would get blown all over. I had patio furniture floating in the pool. We had a 2nd story deck with patio furniture. I would always close the umbrella when a storm approached. One particular storm, blew open the umbrella carrying it and the table off the deck and wound up in some trees near my neighbors property.

The table had a glass top and was shattered. The umbrella wound up about 30 ft up a large white pine.

Looked like something out of the Wizard of Oz!

Jane

Okay... now we're getting into freaky winds....

When Hurricane Hugo came through South Carolina, he came over our little town of Sumter. My dad and my brother went out during the eye and said it was awesome. They didn't think to wake me up to share in the experience. But anyways, the next morning we woke up and checked the yard. At the time my dad had one of those wobbly aluminum sheds that was little more than a few sheets of aluminum tethered to a wooden pallet floor. Hugo or one of his off-spring tornadoes managed to grab the shed lift it up and set it down two yards down in that neighbor's pool. Not a big deal in itself. The funny part is that everything that was in the shed was still there. The lawn mower, the weed trimmer even the bottles of oil and herbicides were still standing on their shelves. Hugo just thought it would be fun to remove the outer shell and leave everything else. What a jokester Hugo was.

I lived in South Carolina during Hugo. I was married to a Marine, so we were stationed in Beaufort. We were told to evacuate and "head north... to Charleston." I kept saying, "But it looks like it's going to HIT Charleston." Well, we headed north and inland until we realized that if we didn't stop driving soon, we'd never get a hotel room. We got a cheap room someplace and stayed the night. The next morning when we were ready to check out, we found that a huge pine tree had fallen across the tops of the cabs of two full-sized pickup trucks, which saved our little Dodge Charger from getting so much as a scratch on it, as we were parked between the two trucks.