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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 568834" data-attributes="member: 12827">Just another day on the Gulf Coast of FL. We get water spouts all of the time, but this one was unusually large. We can get some very quick forming and violent thunderstorms in the summertime which often kick them out, either as waterspouts or just flat out tornadoes. A lot of these very large thunderstorms build offshore all day and then come ashore in the mid to late afternoon. It is not unusual for one to hit us, dump 1-2&quot; of rain in 20 minutes and then just move on. Oftentimes the ones which can precede hurricanes can dump 8-9&quot; before the hurricane even makes landfall. Our &quot;soil&quot; is very sandy and it does not take a lot to saturate it so we can get flash floods pretty easily. Fortunately I live in the highest part of town and the highest point in our neighborhood so for us flooding is not really an issue. We can get a couple of &quot;lakes&quot; in the front and back yard but none are close to the house.&nbsp;In fact it is 6:10 in the evening as I write this and I just heard the first crack of thunder. Show time!!!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 568834, member: 12827"] Just another day on the Gulf Coast of FL. We get water spouts all of the time, but this one was unusually large. We can get some very quick forming and violent thunderstorms in the summertime which often kick them out, either as waterspouts or just flat out tornadoes. A lot of these very large thunderstorms build offshore all day and then come ashore in the mid to late afternoon. It is not unusual for one to hit us, dump 1-2" of rain in 20 minutes and then just move on. Oftentimes the ones which can precede hurricanes can dump 8-9" before the hurricane even makes landfall. Our "soil" is very sandy and it does not take a lot to saturate it so we can get flash floods pretty easily. Fortunately I live in the highest part of town and the highest point in our neighborhood so for us flooding is not really an issue. We can get a couple of "lakes" in the front and back yard but none are close to the house. In fact it is 6:10 in the evening as I write this and I just heard the first crack of thunder. Show time!!!! [/QUOTE]

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