New Tropical Storm Fay Footage

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I decided to go out to the beach and get some video of what Fay is doing to the Jacksonville coast. According to the most recent update, the storm still sits off the coast near Daytona Beach, which is about 80 miles south of us in Jacksonville. However, this means the northern and eastern sides of the tropical storm and what’s hitting us and this is where the worst wind and rain occur.

I didn’t realize until I got home that you can hardly hear me over the wind in the video. The first part of the video shows a tree that came down in my backyard, overnight. It’s in a pretty unused section of the yard, so even if it continues to the ground, it won’t damage anything, thankfully. The first beach shots show an entrance to the beach that is completely flooded and getting worse. In the latter half, notice that the waves are going over the end of the Jacksonville Beach pier. This end of the pier is normally at least twenty feet above the surface of the water. There were a ton of people at the pier, including some that were playing in the rough surf while dodging concrete pillars supporting the pier.