From the Tampa Bay Times. Click to see the source.
Accordion Bay, a.k.a. Tampa Bay is often a sunny place, but it isn’t always one. For the past twenty or so days, there’s been rain. Sometimes it’s been rain with sunny breaks, other times, it’s been rain all day. But there hasn’t been a day without some rain in the past three weeks. Combine that with the natural low-lying land near a coast, a geography with a lot of lakes, and sandy soil, and you get floods. Lots of floods.
Here’s I-275 at the Westshore offramp, where the flooding is so deep that you can’t drive on it anymore.
From Meredyth Censullo’s Twitter account. Click to see the source.
Here’s Kennedy Boulevard:
From Angela Clooney’s Twitter account. Click to see the source.
All of Bayshore is now a great channel for jet-skiing:
From Eagle 8 Photo’s Twitter account. Click to see the source.
Kennedy Boulevard, again:
From @allyconey’s Twitter account. Click to see the source.
Even first responders are running into a little trouble. Greensboro, NC-based TV reporter Chad Silber’s sister in Tampa sent him this photo:
From Chad Silber’s Twitter account. Click to see the source.
Chad’s probably wishing that he had our weather. His area’s currently undergoing a drought:
From Chad Silber’s Twitter account. Click to see the source.
At least one person here is taking things with a sense of humor and entrepreneurial zeal:
Due to the recent flooding in #Tampa, I’m going to quit my day job and start @uber with boats. It will be called Canoe-ber. 😂😂
— Levi Jaeckel (@levijaeckel) August 3, 2015
Here’s what the weather radar looked like earlier this morning:
Click the radar image to see it at full size.
My own situation isn’t too bad. The back yard’s flooded, but I’ve sandbagged and tarped the lanai door, so the house remains high and dry. I’ve got the luxury of working from a home office, and can keep a watch on things as the waters rise. Be careful out there!
Need more flood porn? Check out the Weather Channel’s photo gallery, Photos of the Deluge in Western Florida.