What we learned after the storm. The storm traveled right up 1-75 and crossed through Sarasota county on the night of September 10. The storm was so strong, the winds pulled the water from the bays in advance of its landfall.
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- Sarasota Bay, with a beached manatee.
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- Tampa Bay devoid of its water for a long way out.
That so much water was pulled out of the bays on the front side of the storm, means that the storm surge, or water rushing back into its place on the back side of the storm, was predicted to be huge. This means the whole of Sarasota would be flooded with an insane amount of water. But a funny thing happened. A high pressure area started bearing down on the Gulf from the north, and that caused the back side of the hurricane to begin to break apart, right after it passed through Sarasota. Long story short, the storm surge didn’t happen, the water returned calmly to the bays, and Sarasota (and our house) didn’t get that drastic flooding. Then a few days later, the above radar picture started circulating from the time the back side of the hurricane began to break apart.
Translation: God Hearts Sarasota. Or maybe, He hearts Sarasota, because He hearts us, and we live here.
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