It's really raining, on and off every hour. The wind is terrific,
sometimes even rustling the leaves in the very top of my oak tree! I
can see it from the DEAD CALM GROUND!

The Folly Beach Surf Cam shows waves nearly knee deep on the edge of the
Atlantic in the rain. There's a huge party going on at the bar at the
Windjammer Lounge on the very beachfront of the Isle of Palms just north
of the harbor. You can watch the rain and the party on
www.jammercam.com from your browser. The rain has spotted the lens of
the "Deck Cam" on the roof, but you can still see the NEARLY FLAT OCEAN
on it.

I did feel a gust coming back from dinner that hit the car in between
massive road flooding because the *******s that are SUPPOSED to be
keeping up our roads no longer scrape off the grass overgrowth that
traps the water in large pools on the road surface every few hundred
yards. Some pools drain off into the many potholes going unfilled.

The TV "news" and "weather" people have done their advertisers a
wonderful job of scaring the hell out of the population who've been just
cleaning the shelves off at WalMart and the hardware stores all day. I
hope everyone piles it BACK in the SUV and RETURNS IT TOMORROW, first
thing in the morning. The storm is sponsored by WalMart.

The storm is right off the coast of Charleston as I type this, as close
as it's gonna get. The leaves out of my window aren't even moving at
the moment. Maybe later there'll be a ripple on the river out front not
caused by raindrops....like now.

The boats are all being rinsed off at the marinas in nice fresh water.