Beryl the Bastard.......................

 I sit here now and the rain is still falling its been coming down for almost 2&1/2 days. The winds have died down to tree branch sway, which was far better than Saturday night. My Question is why do these storms always come in the night hours? Saturday morning the beaches were filled, folks strolling the beaches, children playing in the shallows, the breeze was light, the surf pounding. The life guards had their tropical storm flag and beach closed flags all flying. Yet, young surfers tempeted by high surf dared to take a spin on their surfboards. Most surffer's returned with in 20 minutes they were exhausted. The sunny morning gave way to grey clouds and increasing sea breezes. By 2pm being at the beach itself was well unenjoyable as the dermalabrastion passed theraputic levels. The bars filled the winds now reaching 30 mph as the first heavy storms arrived. Jacksonville Beach had only begun to experience the winds. Debrie or I should say light debrie began to blow around as the residents began to store away all the light objects. The hotels here on the island started to empty as tourists decided to end their weekend now and not get trapped for the next 2 days. There was a steady stream of visitor crossing the bridge for home, and very few were coming onto the island. Usually the first responders close the bridges down to keep the look lou's and I gotta see this people from coming on to the island. Its seems the winds reached 45 mph and they weren't going to close them at all, they wanted the visitor to get off the island if they wanted to. Though still early 5 pm it was as dark as twilight, the rains heavy and the gusts kind of scary. Sand began to blow over the dunes and whip across Fletcher, trees swayed, twisted, and some snapped. Jacksonville was a couple of hours in and alread power outages and flooding. Us well it was the wind, by 8pm there trees began to grown and snap, there were green flashes in the sky followed by loud booms. The eye of the storm decended on Jacksonville, but we here on the island were getting stronger gusts and heavy wind driven rain, the power flickered, the noise increased, Tree limbs went blowing past, at last comcast gave out, power don't know I went to sleep. The rain never stopped until the next morning and the winds continued well till this am. Its a mess with tree debrie and random home pieces, patio furniture, and what not to clean up. I don't Beryll was nearly as damaging as the Topical Storm that past by us a few years ago though. Our beaches are distroyed and high tide will now be up to the dundes in some areas. My small little group of homes here all pulled together and cleaned it up. I just had to wait for comcast to switch their switch. Why? Well I think comcast flicks a switch and turns the entire island off because we all lose everything at the same time, and we get reconnected at the same time. So Beryl the Bastard is finishing up, and I do hope y'all had a great Memorial Day!  "T"