One in a 1,000 years

I’m making my way back home after a week working in Bermuda. I’m at Charlotte Airport, where I tend to spend half my life and my onward flight to Sarasota has been delayed.

I see that Scotland didn’t exactly cover themselves in glory in the Euros opener. A bit of a public humiliation that. I plan on watching tomorrow’s games.

I was also met when the phone turned back on with the wonderful news that Sir Chris Powell has been awarded an MBE for services to football in King Charles’ Birthday Honours list. Lovely stuff, and maybe the formalization of his knighthood is next!

I’m pretty sure my flight is delayed due to wet weather and lightning in Florida, which has seen rain of biblical proportions since I’ve been away this week.

My soaked-other-half always accuses me of being away when we are hit by hurricanes and large storms, and when I left home on Monday morning Florida was in drought mode after just 2 inches of rainfall all year.

Well, I turn my back and Sarasota has had 15 inches of rain in just four days. Tuesday was crazy, the most daily rain since 1972. A lot of the area was and is still flooded.

This kind of rainfall is rare, so much so that the chances are a .01 percent chance of ever happening, so that that is once every 1,000 years. Yet, this is now the second 1,000-year flooding event Sarasota has experienced in the past two years.

Plus the hurricane forecast for the Atlantic and Pacific coast this season which started on June 1st is anticipated to be bad. As many as 25 named storms are expected.

As for Bermuda it was typically humid, resulting in much liquid needing to be taken on board🍺.