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Storm Fay washes wetly ashore in southwest Florida
by Outspoken on Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:17 am
Storm Fay washes wetly ashore in southwest Florida
By Michael Christie
Reuters News Service
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fay moved ashore over southwest Florida on Tuesday without strengthening into a hurricane, bringing heavy rains to the south of the peninsula, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
By 5 a.m. EDT, the eye of the storm had crossed the shoreline at Cape Romano, around 55 miles south of the resort area of Fort Myers, the Miami-based center said.
Its top sustained winds never went over 60 miles per hour as it passed over the Florida Keys and menaced south Florida, below the 74 mph threshold at which tropical storms become hurricanes.
The sixth storm of what experts predict will be an unusually busy Atlantic hurricane season, Fay brought gusty conditions and steady downpours to south Florida. The rain was much needed for an area where development over the past decade has outstripped water supplies.
The storm killed more than 50 people in the Caribbean, most of them in Haiti when a crowded bus tried to cross a rain-swollen river and was carried away by the current.
The hurricane center forecast that a weakening Fay would track in a northeasterly direction and briefly reemerge over the Atlantic before curving back into the coast of northeast Florida.
While not particularly ferocious, the weather system knocked down trees, signs and awnings in the low-lying island chain of the Florida Keys and also uprooted some trees in the Miami area. Several thousand utility customers were without power in the Keys and south Florida.
The storm's path was far from U.S. oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Nevertheless, some energy companies briefly pulled workers from offshore platforms.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080819/us_nm/storm_fay_dc;_ylt=AoL2251clCKJVbPJSmAIOGKs0NUE
By Michael Christie
Reuters News Service
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fay moved ashore over southwest Florida on Tuesday without strengthening into a hurricane, bringing heavy rains to the south of the peninsula, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
By 5 a.m. EDT, the eye of the storm had crossed the shoreline at Cape Romano, around 55 miles south of the resort area of Fort Myers, the Miami-based center said.
Its top sustained winds never went over 60 miles per hour as it passed over the Florida Keys and menaced south Florida, below the 74 mph threshold at which tropical storms become hurricanes.
The sixth storm of what experts predict will be an unusually busy Atlantic hurricane season, Fay brought gusty conditions and steady downpours to south Florida. The rain was much needed for an area where development over the past decade has outstripped water supplies.
The storm killed more than 50 people in the Caribbean, most of them in Haiti when a crowded bus tried to cross a rain-swollen river and was carried away by the current.
The hurricane center forecast that a weakening Fay would track in a northeasterly direction and briefly reemerge over the Atlantic before curving back into the coast of northeast Florida.
While not particularly ferocious, the weather system knocked down trees, signs and awnings in the low-lying island chain of the Florida Keys and also uprooted some trees in the Miami area. Several thousand utility customers were without power in the Keys and south Florida.
The storm's path was far from U.S. oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Nevertheless, some energy companies briefly pulled workers from offshore platforms.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080819/us_nm/storm_fay_dc;_ylt=AoL2251clCKJVbPJSmAIOGKs0NUE
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