Navarre, We have ALL the fun!

Pilot makes Emergency Landing!
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This morning at around 8am a student pilot, Kevin Murphy of Milton,  on his third day of flying lessons, practicing stalls and dives in a Cessna 172, had to make an emergency landing on J. Earle Bowden Way (399) out by Navarre.  He stated that his engine started to sputter. There was an instructor aboard.  There were no injuries.

 Nothing but Blue Skies Mate! Glad you're OK !

Tuesday BONUS post

BP helps tourists come back to Navarre and other Gulf Beaches by providing accommodations vouchers for 50% off lodging.  for more information go to http://www.visitnavarrebeach.com/ for limitations, booking dates, and businesses supporting this offer.
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"$551,000 from BP for hotel vouchers


The Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council received an additional $551,000 from BP, said council executive director Kate Wilkes. Most of that money will be used to fund a voucher program to lure tourists to Santa Rosa County.

"If a bed tax collector rents a unit, we will reimburse them for 50 percent of the rent. It could change," Wilkes said. "We have to have it spent by Sept. 18."
The program is open to all bed-tax collectors, including hotels, motels, condominiums and campground.
"We're going (to use some of the money) to advertise it, too," she said. "Most (advertising) will be Internet, because we can change that out immediately, and radio commercials."
Individual accommodations may also promote the program, she said.
Wilkes expects the details of the voucher program to be finalized by the end of the week.
Before this allocation, Santa Rosa had received $1 million from BP. All of that has been used for marketing."
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This is also a great site to hit for more information on our county's Beaches to Woodlands event that is coming up in October !

TROPICAL STORM WARNING

While this is, as of 11 am - Wednesday, CDT still tropical depression 5 ===============
....TROPICAL STORM WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT


THURSDAY...

...TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT...



...NEW INFORMATION...

ALTHOUGH THE DEPRESSION HAS WEAKENED...SOME STRENGTHENING IS POSSIBLE

BEFORE THE CENTER REACHES THE COAST ON THURSDAY.



...PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



FINAL PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM TROPICAL

STORM CONDITIONS SHOULD BE COMPLETED BEFORE CONDITIONS

DETERIORATE. THE ONSET OF GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS CAN CAUSE

OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES TO BECOME DANGEROUS. SECURE LOOSE OUTDOOR

OBJECTS WHICH CAN BE BLOWN AROUND. IF YOU LIVE IN A MOBILE HOME...

PLAN TO LEAVE IT FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.



&&



...STORM SURGE AND STORM TIDE...

A STORM SURGE WILL ACT TO RAISE WATER LEVELS BY AS MUCH AS 2 TO 4

FEET ABOVE GROUND LEVEL ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST NEAR AND TO THE

EAST OF WHERE THE CENTER MAKES LANDFALL. WITH THE LATEST FORECAST

TRACK NOW BEING SHIFTED MORE EASTWARD...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THESE

VALUES MAY BE REVISED UPWARD A BIT BUT NOT MUCH MORE THAN ONE

ADDITIONAL FOOT. ALSO REMEMBER...ACROSS OUR AREA THERE WILL BE A

RANGE OF INUNDATION WITH THE HIGHER VALUES BEING GENERALLY WEST OF

PENSACOLA AND THE LOWER VALUES A BIT FURTHER EAST WHICH WOULD BE A

GREATER DISTANCE FROM THE STORM`S CENTER.



...INLAND FLOODING...

HEAVY TROPICAL CYCLONE RAINBANDS WILL SET UP ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA

AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE LATE TONIGHT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY

AS THE CENTER OF THIS SYSTEM MOVES INLAND OVER LOUISIANA AND

MISSISSIPPI. TOTAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES WITH

LOCALIZED AMOUNTS TO NEAR 10 INCHES IN BANDS OF PERSISTENT HEAVIER

RAINS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION.



...WINDS...

AS TROPICAL DEPRESSION FIVE APPROACHES AND STRENGTHENS TO A

TROPICAL STORM...PERIODS OF TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS...MAINLY

IN PASSING SQUALLS...ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN ALONG THE COASTAL REGION

BY LATE EVENING INTO EARLY THURSDAY.



...TORNADOES...

TORNADOES WILL BE MOST LIKELY TO OCCUR IN THE OUTER RAINBANDS ONCE

THE CENTER OF CIRCULATION PASSES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF COASTAL ALABAMA

AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP MANY MILES

AWAY FROM THE TROPICAL CYCLONE CENTER OF CIRCULATION.




Expect higher surf 6-6 feet, and higher tides 2-3 feet above normal.  Help inform guests of the flag warning system.  As bad weather approached, leave the beach for your safety.

Amphibian Thursday - because while Friday rhymed, I couldn't wait !

Just for giggles, and to show we aren't JUST about the beach.  We have other critters here too.

Have you ever had one of those nocturnal critters of Florida just about drive you insane while you try to count sheep?  I have.  Whether it's the bear cub trying to get into the trashcan, the 82 billion frogs of 7 million species that live around my house, the armadillos, the cotton rats, the chuck-o-widow bird that only does his version of a scratched record,the shrieking of a 10 year old when they find a scorpion,  the mating call of the geckos, or the catbird nest next door, I'm always amazed at what I find when I go to investigate what is making the noise.  (Read: make it STOP making noise.)

Last night, or rather this morning, while trying to drift off at 1 am I was being kept from the city limits of slumberland by what sounded like a 42 pound frog sitting in the middle of my kitchen table.  OK, maybe not 42 pounds, maybe 80. Sometimes a frog does manage to get into the house.  I haven't figured out HOW yet, but they do.  I usually find the dried up little bodies in the middle of the floor the next morning.  Anyway, I'm wandering the house on the prowl for the sweet little amphibian.  Surprise, he's not on the kitchen table.  Certainly I would have noticed 200 pound frog on the kitchen table.  No, now he sounds like he's in the living room, and getting bigger as I play "hot and cold" with something that has a brain the size of a proton.  Nope, he's not nestled on top of the TV or kicked back with a cold one on the lazy chair.  About to give up, I walk past the door to the Florida room.  What a great creation the Florida room.  A glassed off extension to the house meant to keep in the AC, but keep out the wilds, except the spiders, snakes, scorpions, and frogs.  Anyway, I open the door and am greeted with the deafening thrum, nay shrill trill of a frog.  I flick on the light, because I want to be able to dodge the sofa sized tongue that is sure to fly from the mouth of this school bus sized frog and grab me for it's late night snack. Flick.  Nothing. 

Now it's personal.  I MUST find this noise.  Maybe it's an alien space ship landing in the back 40, and it has it's cloaking device on.  So I unlock and slide open a door, wary of an impeding alien abduction. 

The noise stops.

Huh.

Dead quiet for 5 minutes.

So I lock up and trudge down the hall. ::::::TRRIILLLLLLLL::::::

UGH.

I go back to the Florida room, flick on the light, and open the window.  Dead quiet.  OK, seriously?

I get the super maglight out.  You know the one cops used to carry before they invented LED lights.  It's about 2 feet long, weighs 3 pounds, and makes moths burst into flame as they pass the beam? I can't find  a darn thing.  As I'm turning off the light, and shutting the window, there it is.  I just happened to be looking in the right direction.

Really ???? Apparently when it comes to a girly frog, size DOESN"T matter, but a good voice does ! LOL !

1X4 lego for comparison

Please excuse my messy window sills, I'm waiting for it to cool off to pressure wash.

The beach is clean, except for JuneGrass, still.  But we're rockin' and rolling this morning with storms (as if you hadn't noticed), so none of you should be out there.   :)

How about that crack of thunder at 6:30??  Mercy! Thunder is an all day possibility as are waterspouts.  Take care.

Have a great day everyone!