Day 56 - February 24, 2016 - Little Manatee River State Park Wimauma, Florida

It was certainly an interesting day yesterday. We were up very early - around 6 am. Still pitch dark outside and warm. The weather reports were predicting  severe weather approaching so Ron took Jewel out for her morning walk before the rain. 

We sat out and had our morning coffee and tea watching the clouds careening across the darkening skies. Looked pretty ominous. There were other people out walking their dogs before the storm and one couple stopped and asked us if we were watching the weather front come in. Yes, we were. They also joked that campers are people that spend a whole lot of money to live like they are homeless. I'm sure being homeless is no fun so I really can't categorize this as a parallel to homelessness. 

By 8:30  am the rain, thunder and winds kicked in. There were tornado watches and warnings north of us and  then we were included in the watch as well.  It got pretty intense for about two hours and then the rain stopped, thunder ceased, and winds died down. We later learned that there were 63 tornadoes in this 2000 mile front that extended from Cuba to Canada!  

To brighten the gloomy day we had a visit from a beautiful cardinal!

Once the flooding cleared we were able to get out to take Jewel for a couple of walks. As predicted the temperature dropped and we were once again relegated to long pants and jackets. And they say New England weather is weird.