Tropical Storm Fay in Daytona Beach

We haven't been able to post lately. My wonderful internet provider, AT&T high speed, was down for almost 100 hours during Tropical Storm Fay. We never, not one single time, were able to talk to a real person to get any info on the outage or when it would be back up. Typical -- customer non-service. Another funny thing: their cables are all buried, not hangin' from poles and we didn't have too much wind in east Volusia County - well at least not very bad winds. Sustained at fifty or sixty for a few hours, but not much wind damage at all.
Below is an angry ocean shot from Ormond by the Sea.
This was a really strange storm. I don't thing it ever reached Hurricane status, but the difference between 60 mph wind and 74 mph wind isn't very much. It's still blowin' hard. The strangest thing about Fay was how it came blowing in then stopped and just hovered over the area, not moving, and dropping tremendous amounts of rain from Tuesday through yesterday. We received about 20 inches in our area, but other parts of Central Florida received much more with severe flooding in Melbourne and a few other places. We haven't been on the motorcycles ridin' for almost a week and it's drivin' us nuts. Below is a shot of Boots on the boardwalk at Flagler Beach where we stopped to watch some crazy surfers in the 8' to 10' waves.

Below are a couple of shots of Highway A1A between Flagler Beach and Ormond Beach. The sand in the roadways was a real problem, even though we were in the pick up truck, not on the bike. It blew up, or washed up, over the roadway and presents unique challenges. It's not as slick as drivin' on packed snow or ice, but it's squirrely and you get your paint sand-blasted if you follow too closely behind others.
Every hurricane or tropical storm we have is unique, but this one was really strange. We were kinda stuck in the house as if we were in a blizzard up north. But puttin' up with these storms ever couple of years is a small price to pay to live in an area where we can ride the year 'round.

Ride safe and enjoy the moment!