Invest 99 - Brevard County

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We had an interesting Sunday, October 1st. Little Invest 99L was parked NE of the Melbourne, FL area out over the Atlantic. The tropical wave never developed but it did bring me 8-10" of rain in 24 hours. The issue was compounded because several weeks Irma dropped up to 15" of rain. The rain we had yesterday really had nowhere to go as the ground is still very saturated. I think the weather terminology is, "training", a complex of storms followed the same path from east to west the entire morning/day/night.

I have a coconut germination station inside my son's sandbox, when the water had rose high enough to clear the sides of the sandbox, the coconuts all floated away to different parts of my yard since they are buoyant. I think another several inches and I would have had water inside our screened in porch.

I understand this is nothing compared to what others are suffering through after the recent barrage of hurricanes but what I found interesting is that I find myself catastrophizing about powerful hurricanes and then a sneaker storm on a Sunday comes close to causing major damage.

I think the palms are going to love it.

Image from last night

 

Image from this morning, you can see the water is receding.

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The water has receded.

 

You can see the water line on the house, thank goodness we don't have a door in this area.