Like a duck to water.......

Tropical Storm Fay brought about all kinds of things around here. Lots and lots of rain and it was raining more today, almost a week after Fay first hit here. It started our school year off to a weird start. It brought out interesting reptiles. I saw many pictures of walking catfish in people's yard, there was a picture of a 5 foot fish of some sort swimming down the middle of a street. It brought big and little kids out to play in the water, some on skim boards, some in canoe's, and I even saw a picture of a man floating down a street in a blow up kiddie pool.

This is a few pictures of my parents neighborhood. This is their street turned canal. Their house is up on the right.

This is a picture heading the other way. Their house is the first one on the left.


Heading out their gate. I saw a little BMW trying to leave and the water was up past the bottom of his doors.
There is only supposed to be one body of water and that is the one on the far side, but now there is two bodies of water....barely.
This is coming off of Seabranch (the main road to take you to my parents community) up to US1. There was a car earlier that could not tell where the road ended and the ditch began and ran into a ditch on the right. The car was completely down with hood under the water. Needless to say, there was no way that car was not ruined.
Many people locally submitted photo's to our local TV station and this one was voted #1. In case you can't see it well, it was a sign that had been sticking out of the ground and was now half under water that said "SEVERE DROUGHT" "Mandatory Water Restrictions Are in Effect". Pretty ironic huh?

I thought this person had a cute sense of humor to set this up.
Then there was this!! Sunday afternoon I had let our dog Jackson out in the backyard and left the door slighly open. As I came back to let Jackson back in, this is what I found.....
We have two big planters on either side of this concrete slab that used to have pretty flowery things in them, but my landscaper is too busy working on other people's places :) and they have been sitting empty for some time. I had put two big, black plastic bags over them, but all the water had kind of rotted them and then the pots had filled with water from Tropical Storm Fay and Connor is like a duck to water. If he sees water, he goes to it and he had climbed in to this very dirty pot and was sitting there humming happily. I let him stay there long enough to get a picture and a little video and then it was off to a different body of water, a clean bath!!

I know I say Hurricane Fay in the video (brain failure) but I meant Tropical Storm Fay.