Day 3-Tropical storm Fay

Wednesday started off with a fairly heavy but short duration rain after which it returned to what can best be described as a "good soaking rain". Throughout the day light rain fell with a few gusts of winds to about 30 mph, I believe. The afternoon gave way to a brighter day as the clouds dissipated some what before getting a medium gray again with the return of light rain. As darkness approached, the wind speeds picked up considerably as did the rain and we are finally expecting the tropical storm to pass by us as it moves north to St. Augustine and Jacksonville tomorrow. We should have rains throughout the night and winds a high as 60 mph but these are suppose to be just gusts. This has been a strange storm as it was stationery most of the day just north of the Cape about 50 miles south of Daytona. It followed the coastline most of the day as it moved along at 3-5 mph dumping close to 15 inches of rain in the Melbourne area. No weatherman/woman has been able to predict the path yet so we will have to wait and see what tomorrow actually brings. Right now we have steady rain falling and pretty good winds blowing.