Hi Cassie,
Great to hear you had a successful growing season this year. My Ice Cream has finally fruited recently, but it too was in danger of being lost a couple days ago.
Looks like "Bill" is heading toward Bermuda, and the weather service said today that "Ana" should be down-graded to a tropical depression today. Looks like we all got pretty luckly this time around!
I was watching a storm system heading up the coast of Florida a few days ago. Our daily thunderstorms are powerful, as I'm sure you can imagine. I was getting nervous about this storm because no one was talking about it on the news, instead everyone was concerned about the two trops in the Atlantic. On the radars you could easily see it rotating like a hurricane. Then just as it passed over us (in the red square), the weather service finally announced it as a tropical depression. The next day it became tropical storm "Claudette." I feel sooooooo lucky I still have my bananas. But that just goes to show how quickly these storms can form locally and not just off the coast of Africa.
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