The plagues of Egypt

Frogs were one of the plagues of Egypt, right? Let me tell you - it sounded like a plague of frogs this morning at Chez Polson.

First off it rained all night. This isn't a sprinkle or even a solid rain, it POURED ALL NIGHT. The backyard, which was damp, but dry yesterday, now closely resembles a lake. We have about 18 inches of standing water in the backyard. Standing water = frogs! Chris and I were both awakened from a dead sleep by the croaking of the frogs. I looked out and there were easily a dozen frogs in this large pool of standing water. As far as I can tell they are probably leopard frogs, not that it really matters that much. All I know for sure is that they produce a racket.

It rained pretty heavily most of the day but stopped at about 1 o'clock. It's about 3 o'clock now and it's very calm outside, no rain and just a slight breeze.

I've been watching the news and it appears that Chris and I got REALLY lucky. There is substantial flooding on Riverside Ave (where my office is). The whole Riverside area is off-limits, shut down by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. The beaches are still getting hammered by heavy winds and surf, JTB (one of the east/west road between 95 and the beach) has been shut off and on throughout the day. The big bridges have been shut down off and on as well.

For an initiation into tropical weather, I have to say that it was amazing, but I'm glad we got off easy. (Yes, I took some pictures, but since I still need to post/edit the driving pictures these will have to wait).