T.S. Debby

It’s Thursday already. Almost one solid week of Tropical Storm Debby. But it’s over. Yippee–we didn’t even lose power while she sat out in the Gulf causing mischief and mayhem. Debby did eventually shut Old Homosassa down when both the Homosassa River and Mason Creek went over their banks and flooded streets and houses.

Most of the rain and wind came on Sunday. On Monday the tide started rising. Tuesday morning we rode our bikes to check out Old Homosassa.

2012_06_26macraes — The street was closed to the county boat ramp and MacRae’s for obvious reasons.

2012_06_26thefreezer — This is “The Freezer”, one of our local bars.

We drove our truck into Homosassa Springs to get provisions (beer and wine). While we were never told to evacuate, the county did close the streets that night.

2012_06_26downtown — “Downtown” Old Homosassa

2012_06_26rooster — I think this rooster came from Crystal River, it’s extreme size and color can be attributed to the Nuclear Power Plant. And then it swam here with the high tide. Scary. Almost as scary as zombies or a clown possee.

2012_06_26ourroad — This is the intersection at Hancock Road and Mason Creek Rd. With a canal from Mason Creek on one side of the intersection and the canal from the Homosassa River on the other, the water was a few feet deep.

2012_06_26signs — Our neighborhood signs are swamped.

2012_06_26dock1 — The boat was high and dry.

2012_06_26theshed — The garden shed barely escaped being flooded.

2012_06_26viewsm — The view from the “sun” room.

A few of our neighbor’s were AWOL so we watched their houses while the tide crept up. Couldn’t do anything about it–but we did watch.

2012_06_26stevesbackyard2 — Steve and Kathy’s backyard. Ray’s floating dock looks like it is sitting in the middle of a lake.

2016_06_26thefront — Paul and Sue’s place was surrounded by high water from the canal and all the rain.

We were still getting a little rain on Tuesday evening but it was pleasant enough to sit in our screened room. We have an eastern view so have lovely sunrises. But some evenings we get a reflection of the sunset–it only lasts a few moments. We call it “The Glowing”. This evening it was particularly beautiful due to the gray skies and high water.

Wednesday morning we had a little more rain and then lots of sun for the rest of the day. Terry, Maggie and I rode our bikes down to MacRae’s to check things out. A reporter from Bay News 9 was doing his report in the middle of the flooded parking lot. Weather guys need to stand in water. Glad it wasn’t Jim Cantore!

2012_06_27theshed — The Shed may not be open for a few days.

2012_06_27macraesparking — Motel looks empty, too.

2012_06_27otherside — The other side of the river.

It’s over. We did see the American Red Cross Disaster Relief truck, a few electric and cable trucks, and a “restoration” expert so some were not as fortunate as us. We still need to clean up the flood and wind debris from the yard and do some pressure washing, but we know that it could have been so much worse.

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Yvonne Chorvat

June 28, 2012 at 9:13 am

I was so excited when I saw Ferdinand Zogbaum, Bay News 9, in Old Homosassa! Not as excited as I would have been if it was Jim Cantore, rock star in the meteorology world! Of course I was looking for you guys, too, should have known Terry Green, rock star of ready mix world, would be avoiding the media :-).
KTgreen

June 28, 2012 at 11:16 am

I thought about you when I saw him there. I know that you watch Bay News 9. We can’t get it so we just totally ignored him. It’s Jim Cantore or nothing for us!

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