The Hurricane Days Part II
Because of hurricanes like Helene, and Hurricane Milton, I think back to a storm we had in Florida a few years ago called Storm Debby. Known as Cape Verde storms, they form in the far eastern Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa. T here wasn't much warning in the news. It was just a tropical depression. A storm. At the time I had a home on Shore Acres. A beautiful area but only 4 ft above sea level prone to flooding. We had debated this before purchasing the home but this was a stilt home design with most of the living space upstairs. It was a rookie mistake that we didn't prepare for Debby. We figured the garage might get flooded but never bothered to get sandbags or lift up a stair area in the back to keep water from getting in through the patio. I'm usually a forward thinker and a planner, but I didn't have my head wrapped around flooding or storms quite yet. We began to notice very quickly that Debby was a small, compact storm with a ba