OMG!! BARRY DOWNGRADED!

Just heard on the top of the hour news in Phoenix! No link yet. TS Barry, the second tropical storm of the season, has been down graded to a depression! Florida to get much needed rain. Can the state survive, are they prepared?
Be safe Florida!!!

;)

I know it's depressing to be downgraded. :P

Or am I missing something.

and not just blow through like a hurricane does. It;s a good thing for drought relief..but then you have flooding to think about.
Let's hope there are enough open spaces left to soak it up and send it underground into all those underground rivers & aquifers:)

about flooding and runoff.

Maybe it'll start slow for a few hours first and loosen up the soil.

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I am attracted to odd pics..and you can tell by the ones I have.. I have a slightly tweaked sense of humor :evilgrin:

in this case, it means Tropical Storm Barry became Tropical Depression Barry, because the winds dropped below the threshold to be classified as a tropical storm (39 mph). It can also mean what you seem to be saying, that a hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm, but Barry was never a hurricane. Either way, I'm really happy with the rain we got here and I think everyone in Florida is getting some rain (maybe not the panhandle :( )

One of our canals was bone dry last week. It has a good 2 feet of water in it now... I almost feel some sort of primitive relief that we aren't all going to dry up and float away on the wind.

TD Barry is expected to become extratropical later today, but should still bring lots of rain to North Florida and Georgia. They just won't get the winds to go along with it.

You know what I meant though :)

I was trying very hard not to come off sounding like a know-it-all when I wrote it. I'm just high on our 10 inches of rain still. It's like walking into a sauna now that the sun has come out, but things were getting really worrisome there.

as a baseball player......

I hope you get the rain you need.

We really, really needed the rain up here in Georgia also. Looks like another day or so coming.

Here in Brunswick, GA....we needed this soooooooo bad here. I can almost see my grass greening as we speak. I have been watering my gardens, but not the grass. So, I am a happy Georgian and hopefully this will put out the fires for now.

My yard in VA is bone dry. Looks like we might get some rain from Barry, which we desperately need. YIPPEE!!!!

No Sturm-und-Drang reporting for them.

On to the next storm!

would start working, things would be fine. Just got our power back. Can't figure the phones, my DSL works but the phones are dead. Before anyone asks, I am real near the Gulf in the Tampa Bay area and the flooding is minor storm surge coming up through the storm sewers.

today's paper said that dirt and debris on top of transformers was washed down and shorted out by the rain. hmmmm...... can't recall that happening before during the first rain following a drought.

It rained all night long here. I don't think it stopped once. I'm glad, though, as the ground was absolutely parched.

I'm in Tampa and it started raining yesterday afternoon and didn't stop until this morning. It was wonderful1

The state needs another 40 inches at least!

in the Charleston area, as it has been most of the day.:)

The total in my back yard since April is .2 inches. Everything is brown, and the leaves are falling off the trees. The forecast is bleak - only a slight chance of rain for the next several days. My neighbors are feeding their horses hay, but that won't last long because the summer hay crop is now dead. If it doesn't rain soon, I have no idea how they are going to feed these animals. There was more pasture grass in November than there is now.

:thumbsup:

We're going through the very last stages of it now, but we have lots of local flooding here and over 12,000 customers without power.