Perhaps there are many others who did just as we should have this past weekend and early days of the week in getting ready for what could have been a hurricane. I took down and put away anything that could have become a projectile and basically cleaned up my back yard, which was in great need of being cleaned up. But just as we are a bit angry at the work we put into getting ready for what turned out to be not much more than some rather heavy rain showers, we are just as thankful for all the rain Tropical Storm Fay dumped onto our lawns and lakes. ...more

August 29, 2008

West Pasco received about 4.18 inches of rain during the past week, when Tropical Storm Fay was influencing the area's weather. ...more

August 25, 2008

SEBRING –– As far as rainfall goes, the last two weeks were rather wet for Avon Park and downright soggy for Lake Placid. So soggy, in fact, that Highlands County Lakes Association Secretary John Ruggiero said he saw the lake, Lake Placid, rise about 10 inches from two weeks ago, which is about what the Archbold Biological Station's rain gauge recorded for that time period, according to the National Weather Service. "If we could even get 5 or 6 (inches) a week, that would be a wonderful thing for the lakes in our county," Ruggiero said. For those who long for the days when they could put a boat out on Lake Jackson, "this is just a spit in the bucket," association vice president Dave McCadam said. He added that the rain patterns over the past two weeks were not that far from normal for the northern part of the county. ...more

July 6, 2008

Florida gardeners look to the coming of June with half a smile and half a frown - yes, a tricky stunt, but we've managed trickier, now, haven't we? ...more

May 28, 2008

A black night, a slick road and high winds turned an evening of socializing with friends into a frightening brush with disaster that left two young women trapped in a local retention pond. ...more

December 22, 2007