July 4th, 2014

The wind actually did blow the chairs around and we put them in the garage.
Staged photo taken on a beautiful Friday morning after the storm moved through.

Hurricane formed off the coast this week and was to go close to Southport. So naturally, I went down to St. James for the weekend.

Actually had already planned to come down here and arrived Wednesday.

Thursday was rainy and stormy with wind gusts - but not really much more than a prolonged thunderstorm. Heavy downpours though - with each passing rain band. The hurricane eye passed by within 20 miles - but it was such a small and weak storm - even just 20 miles away - the winds went from 90 mph sustained to just 30 mph gusts.

Not that it's wise to go to the beach with a hurricane - its just that forecasting has gotten so good that it was obvious it was going to be a non-event storm.

We had lunch with Boseman yesterday. Went over to the beach today and we got pizza and a sandwich. Just hanging out today and watching a little TV. We were going to grill out steaks but we really weren't hungry so we just ended up doing nothing.

Might go back to Sandford tomorrow - have grass to cut and chores to do.

May also add to this entry as the weekend goes on.