08.21.2008 7:12 am

Tropical Storm Fay Stalls, Causes Historic Flooding in Florida

Tropical storm Fay, while not strenghtening to a hurricane, has been stalled just off the coast of Florida for the past couple of days. The storm has been bringing drenching rains to Florida, causing historical flooding across much of the center of the state. Cape Canaveral reported a remarkable 21 inches of rain for just Wednesday, August 20. Florida Governor Charlie Crist has asked President Bush to declare an emergency in the state to free up federal funding.

The National Weather Service’s Hurricane Center is predicting that Fay will make a third landfall in Florida today, somewhere near Daytona beach. The image above is an infrared image of Fay taken at 7:15 AM, thursday, Aug. 21.

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The Fay drop almost 30 inches of rainfall along Florida’s coast, hundreds of homes in central Florida had been flooded. Floridians have faced to contend with alligators and snakes that had been chased from their lairs by rising waters.

— Abduwasit Ghulam

1:52 pm August 21st, 2008

I’ve heard about the Florida torrential rain from CCTV 3 days aog. In fact, such kind of extreme weather like the snow disaster in China last winter and tropical storm in north America have raised global concern, people wonder about the abnormality and hope you can find out the reason and mitigate the problem.

— Rejoice Qiu

9:22 am August 24th, 2008

Hi Rejoice,

Yes, more people seem to be affected by disasters recently, though maybe this is partly because more people are moving to places that are frequently hit by storms, such as along coasts. Also, we are now in a cycle of more active Atlantic hurricanes, that may last another 25 or so years.

The tropical storm Fay was fickle, stalling over Florida, fading and strengthening, and making four separate landfalls. Record rains resulted, now flooding is widepsread across the state. Today President Bush declared a “major disaster” area in Florida, making the counties of Brevard, Monroe, Okeechobee, and St. Lucie eligible for federal funds. We can just hope the region is spared more storms during this hurricane season, and the floods recede.

— Tim Kusky

9:19 pm August 24th, 2008