The eye of Gordon passed over my beloved Dauphin Island last night and made landfall on the coast near the Alabama/Mississippi line. Some of you may remember that I posted some photos of Dauphin Island/Heron Bay in a photography thread several months ago.
Since it is a barrier island, the eye passing over it does not constitute a "landfall." Maybe we could call it a "sandfall"? Anyway--it was a breezy, wet night here, but very limited damage. Only widely scattered power outages (20,000 in Mobile), and roads are passable almost everywhere. I recorded 5" of rain in my shrimpers' rain gauge, but cannot attest to its accuracy.
Glad to have electricity and to be able to enjoy my coffee this morning before starting the yard cleanup. (about a zillion small limbs scattered across the yard but no damage to house or property). Might even be able to grab a smoke later. Oddly enough, the county to the east across the bay where
cgvt lives got more rain, even though they are farther away from the storm. And it is still raining heavily there this morning.
OK--back to your regularly scheduled programming......
I was wondering how you fared last night. Other than a metric shite-ton of rain, it was pretty much a non-event for us. I drained my pool down about 8" yesterday and it is overflowing this morning.
Speaking of Dauphin Island, when Katrina hit, I was running the Coast Guard station on the Island. One of our 41' boats was up on blocks in Bayou La Batre. It was attached to two 12000 lb buoy sinkers (big cement blocks). After the storm it took us most of the day to find it. It was about a mile from boatyard on land in some woman's back yard. I'm glad Gordon wasn't anything like Katrina...
