Leaving FL and It's Following Me!

Thomasville, GA
72 deg. clear, no wind.
Forecast today = high temp. 89 deg. becoming cloudy with a 40% chance of rain. NE winds @ 5 to 10 mph.

Linda's doctor appointment went well, (it was just a routine check-up), and by 9:30 she was finished and she and Jim were heading first to Walgreen's, and then back to the park, where I was patiently waiting. By 10:30, CLT was hooked behind me, and we were pulling away from our site.

The route we took up here to Thomasville and the City of Roses RV Park, was the exact reversal of the route we took as we headed down to Orange City. First, it was US 17, then Rt 40, Rt 326, US 27 and finally US 19. It was a long travel day, (for us), but we did manage to put some distance between us and the storm. We pulled into the park here at about 3:20 pm, so we were on the road for about 4 hrs and 50 minutes, and we traveled 246 miles.

Speaking of the storm. They have named it Fay, and as of now, it has not developed into a hurricane, so the weather people are calling it a tropical storm. Anyway, this storm doesn't seem to know where it is going. Actually, it's the weather people that don't know where it's going. The forecasted storm tracks are all over the place. One has it crossing over FL and ending in the Atlantic Ocean, but 2 or 3 other tracks have it coming right up through FL, and then making a left turn as it gets farther North, either taking it back into the Gulf of Mexico, or bringing it across GA, AL, and MS. If it goes back into the Gulf, it might still intensify and become a hurricane. If it stays inland, the winds will die down, but it would more than likely dump huge amounts of rain along it's path.

Great! This thing is following me!!!

So, what do we do? About the only thing we can do is start heading West and keep ahead of it. These storms don't move very fast, so as long as we keep moving for the next few days, it shouldn't be a problem. Hopefully it will die out and not follow us too far.

Did you know that the terms, hurricane and typhoon are both other names for a strong tropical cyclone?