At about 9 PM, just after I lost power, a radio announcer said there looked like potential for tornados in the Miami Lakes area and much further south near Homestead. Apparently they had a sophisticated device that indicated twisting wind, even at very low levels, in those areas. Have not heard anything subsequently.
Joe Rose was just on the radio simulcast of Channel 4, saying residents from Homestead, Cutler Ridge and the Kendall regions of southwest Dade were calling the station with the most reports of power outages and damage. I'm near Kendall and this has been much heavier than we were led to believe beforehand. The rain shifted and intensified an hour or so ago.
While the rain has now temporarily lessened somewhat, the street is now flooded in front of our house with ankle high water nearly up to the front porch. It looks like a spooky scene from a Hitch**** movie, near total darkness with rustling trees and street signs in the middle of an apparent lake. The neighbor across the street has a huge and powerful beam light he is flashing across his property and elsewhere to assess damage, I suppose. I could do without the occasions he splashes the light on our home. I'm standing out there in shorts, just to get out of the dark and uncomfortably hot home, and no mood to wave to the camera.
