What a remarkable weather day! While working with the Bench Brigade in the maintenance shed, we observed more and more cars arriving at the clubhouse after 11am. The storm sweeping through Tarpon Springs earlier this morning slowly moved south. In the maintenance shed, we had a NOAA radio broadcasting the tornado watches and warnings. When the alarm beeped and the radio broadcasted the tornado warning in Pinellas County, the folks at home apparently were watching on their TV sets, and they drove over to the clubhouse.
I was very happy to see the enlightened few leave their mobile homes and take cover in a brick building. OK OK it might not be the the BEST solution, but staying in your mobile home during a tornado warning is a pretty dumb thing to do. The atmosphere in the room may have been somewhat tense with the group watching the TV, but there is always a group looking for a card game, and by George, a card game of Golf started up, keeping 8 or 10 residents entertained thru the crisis.
It appears from the TV news that there were two tornado trails through the city today, one north of us, and another through south Tampa along Interbay. Straight line winds also contributed to considerable damage. Mayor Iorio spent her last day in office surveying the tornado damage throughout the city. The tornado warnings continue tonight until 8pm, another hour or so.
If we can make it through the next little round of storms tonight, once again Regency Cove has been blessed.
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