A Little Rain, a Little Wind, and Less Fence

We are now +8 hours of landfall. Another sky shot from the front door, a little over 24 hours after the first picture. It still looks like rain, but we have had very little rain. The wind remains strong. The clouds are more dispersed, not showing the ring/band patterns observed prior to landfall.


As I was getting ready to post this blog, our rainfall has just grown from "spitting" to "steady"...and the first claps of thunder.


Updated photo of our back fence. It surprises me that Rita caused damage from 110 miles away, and the wind gusts we are experiencing, sans water, can still take out a fence. Had there been rain with these winds, the damage throughout the neighborhood would have been greater. As is, this appears to be the only damage.



The boughs on our pine show the sustained 25-30 mph (40-48 kmph) winds we have seen all morning. Gusts were strong enough to move me while outside talking to a neighbor. He was sitting in his car, moving it from the driveway to the street while we spoke. He said the movement of the vehicle caused by the wind was quite noticeable.