We are seeing some surge, but that is only a problem for the fools who live right on the water. The wakes from the larger boats are pushing water onto the lawns, which will kill the grass, but the grass shouldn’t have been put there in the first place.

The last time a storm came ashore at Destin there wasn’t as much wind as a normal thunderstorm. The western side of tropical storms is never a problem. OTOH, when Katrina went into Mississippi, we knew it, even though we were 200 miles away. That’s why all of the bad effects are being seen on the peninsula. The east side of the storm is where the trouble is located. I stopped worrying when the wind shifted from the East to the Northeast.

Right. T.S. Allison comes to mind… nothing spectacular in the wind department, but the flood from hell over the entire city of Houston. Within limits, give me wind over flood any day. (So what am I doing in Houston?)

Glad to read that Debby will apparently miss you. I had to look on the map to confirm my memory of where those towns were, but it looks like you should be OK.