Thursday: water spout

 

No particular reason for failing to blog this earlier, but no matter, here it is now anyway.

Yesterday was an exciting day for us. We went to Bayou Joes's for a late lunch of fried grouper sandwiches, and brought home a go-box fried oyster basket with sweet potato fries. Soon as

we arrived home, Ray, Britany, Malinda and Lilly came over with exciting news about their future plans, including opting to downsize from the large house they had built at

Breakfast Point PCB after Hurricane Michael destroyed Malinda's house on Calhoun Avenue in St Andrews. Turns out to be a highly desirable floor plan helping for possible fast sale, and

they may elect to rent an apartment for a while to get their bearings on what comes next for them. When they

left, we drove out to Sam's to pick up a prescription and couple OTC meds, then headed

home as the sky blackened and rain pelted the car. Sitting here at my Bay desk, at

6:15 I glanced out the window at the heavy black clouds over the Gulf, to see a water spout forming directly south of me. We

went out on 7H porch and I snapped photos with Linda's phone (mine was battery dead) for the next few minutes as it drifted off toward the east of us and eventually dissipated beyond The Pass. There seems

to be a gap between the bottom end of the water spout and the Gulf, but that is actually a large cloud of water being stirred up by the twister. 

The final pic above is of the same southern sky as the storm continued its downpour into the Gulf. We got practically zero rain here.

all is well, and all is well, and all manner of ...

T