St Cloud Takes A Little Hit

We had a pretty strong storm go through our town yesterday afternoon. I was at work, but little Dixie was on the back porch and apparently saw and felt the whole thing. (Poor little girl was drenched.) A couple of trees in the neighborhood were uprooted. (It looks like '04 when the hurricanes took our trees and just popped the root balls out of the ground and laid the tree itself gently on the ground.) Our place didn't have any trees go down but we lost quite a few tree branches and the screened-in back porch looks a mess. The wind-blown debris was stuck into the screens. I didn't get the chance to take any pics this morning, but on my drive to work just south of our place I also spotted a whole section of a home owner's fence blown down. I didn't go into the nearby neighborhoods, but people are beginning to clean-up their yards.

Everyone talks about how it's not even storm season yet, but in my experience this IS our storm (other than hurricanes) season for Florida. The Midwest will get the Spring storms and of course, it's expected in Tornado Alley. In Florida, our larger tornadoes and most severe weather occur right about now. Back in 1998 and again this year we've had the F3's. Our summertime storms don't usually generate more than F1's.