Wet

Tropical storm Fay continues the lord's work in Florida. After sitting off the coast near Daytona Beach for more than a day, the storm has finally moved back inland. This makes Fay only the fourth storm since record keeping began--and the first since Donna in 1960--to hit Florida three times with at least tropical storm foce.

While Fay remains below hurricane strength, it is nonetheless a prolific rainmaker. Some parts of the so-called Sunshine state have now received as much as 30 inches of rain, which is just astounding. In comparison, Hurricane Mitch dumped 20 inches of rain on Central America a few years ago and entire mountainside villages were swept out to sea, resulting in a severe illegal alien shortage in the United States that fall.

Fortunately Florida has no mountains, and no retirement communities have been swept away yet. On the other hand, the state does have a lot of pissed off alligators at the moment.