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Florida Peeps Okay?

Talked to a number of coworkers today... everything from "meh... just 10" of rain... at least we're no longer in a draught" to "my house is flooded" to "we're expecting up to 30" of rain."...
 
Daytona area checking in. Not much rain so far. We have had significantly worse afternoon thunderstorms. Boss's boss was in late from having to clear some fallen trees in his neighborhood.

Lots of power company looking trucks heading west towards Orlando on I4 yesterday morning. I'm guessing they were staging to follow the storm.
 
Thumping said:
Are our Florida people doing okay? I've not heard anything.
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I was fishing in Islmorada Saturday during the storms and wind gusts does that count
 

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Checking in from Tampa/Clearwater. Basically what you would expect from being on the East side of a tropical storm. Lots of rain that came through in rapid moving bands and wind gusts of 30-40 mph on to of a steady wind.

The usual low-lying places near the water had some level of flooding, typically up to 3'-ish, but nothing crazy like 6-15' of storm surge yu might see from a bigger storm that was hitting the area vs just passing by.

There were scattered power outages, but nothing too wide spread.

I'm about 10 miles east of Tarpon Springs (coast) and we had a couple days of rain (guessing 8" or so), wind blew down some small branches and leaves/moss (we have Lots of trees on our 5 acres). Power flickered once last night, but other than that no impacts. Still breezy today with a few showers.
 
I believe we got like 16" of rain overnight. Beat some records. Believe we got the most rain in all of fl. Quite a bit of Sarasota/Bradenton is completely flooded no where near any water. My dad's house is on a river, but built up very high and it has maybe 2" in it. First time that's ever happened. The usual flooding houses are probably pretty well submerged
I'm on a high lot that flows very well. I have maybe a inch in the field. Once the rain stops it'll be dry.
I suppose that's what happens when the vast majority of the agriculture land became concrete in the past 3 years with next to 0 infrastructure planning.
Road behind us. Probably 2' and getting deeper when we turned off.
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