Frances Is Dying A Slow Death

[alicia-w]

Here in Niceville FL, we got 32 inches in 3 days with Georges. We lived on a golf course then and it looked more like waterfront property!

[LadyStorm]

The only problem here is that Frances is running out of real estate. She is partially on Florida's southeast coast and still part on the Bahamas. The last radar showed her eye as being opened and looking a bit ragged. Is she just recycling or losing strength?

her eye is peeking out in sat photos!
Frances is making a last ditch effort to wake up before landfall.

[inotherwords]

If it's not already completely saturated. We've had too much rain lately -- in many places the ground is solid mud right now. I was at my parent's house on Thursday (putting away potential lawn missiles) and in places, walking through their yard was like walking through 4-5 inches of thick pudding

Well, that's the situation we had here last summer with 65 inches of rain in 6 weeks. By week 3 we were saturated too, and yeah it does take the water a while longer to drain off when the water table is high, but it does tend to drain a lot faster in Florida than other places used for comparison, that was my point. We can handle a lot of rain, quantities of rain that in other places would tend to cause far more severe flooding. It's nothing to trivialize, but it's important to put it into proper perspective.