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June 30, 2003
Little Bill
The worst of tropical storm Bill has passed Baton Rouge and we still have power, telephone service and internet access. It took a hard turn east before making landfall, which put BR on the weak side of the eye. I pity Mobile and Pensacola, but we're doing fine.
Whenever we have severe tropical weather, I have vivid flashbacks to the 8 days without power we endured after Hurricane Andrew in 1992. The near-total destruction of Homestead, FL grabbed national attention, so people forget that Andrew caused extensive damage to Louisiana as well.
I didn't blog it, but we had a very scary hurricane last year: Lili. It seemed like any other boring category 3 that hardly causes much fuss, nor decent hurricane parties. But about 12 hours before landfall, Lili jumped up to a strong category 4. For a few hours, there was genuine panic around southern Louisiana, because if Lili continued to gain strength at that rate, it would be one of the strongest hurricanes to ever make landfall in the US. Thankfully, and for some unknown reason, she actually DECREASED in strength before making landfall. I can't remember a hurricane ever getting weaker just prior to landfall, but Lili did.
Because of nail-biters like Lily, piddly-ass tropical storms such as Bill Jr. don't cause much excitement.
Posted by Christopher at June 30, 2003 08:27 PM
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