So Tropical Storm Fay ended up causing a lot more flooding in our area than I originally thought. We have been sitting in our new home in our newly designed neighborhood with excellent water drainage ditches and retention ponds. Our little lake the back yard was nothing. Apparently for the small coastline area we live, Fay created the worst flooding in 50 years (the tropical storm just hovered over our area for two days pouring rain on us).

And though the rain and wind are gone and the tropical storm has moved north, much of our area (especially the mainland area where they got 26 inches of rain in two days) is under water. No one from church that we know of has personally experienced their home being flooded, but there are plenty of homes and buildings in the area that have not been as fortunate. Super Wal-mart and Super Target both ended up with a foot of water covering the entire floor.

Here are a couple of links you can check out to see some of the flooding in our area:

Beachside Flooding in Satellite Beach
(this family lives in our neighborhood so you can see how close to us the flooding got)

The Mainland Side (Melbourne, FL)

So school is out again (school in our county has been out Tuesday – Friday the first week of school) while the water continues to recede.