The bands come and go

Last night the bands of rain from Helene started up on a more consistent basis. Right now the storm is about eye to eye with Naples albeit a couple hundred miles or more off shore, a good thing for us. Despite the distance the public schools and court system closed today preemptively. My phone has been blowing up with storm surge, flood and cyclone warnings for a good portion of the last 24 hours but overall I think the impact to our area will be pretty minimal.

Almost as soon as I got around to mentioning how Dawn and I were going to dip our toes into seeing if we could make a long distance relationship work last week those plans sort of came off the rails. In the big picture it’s probably the best decision for both of us at this point in time. As is always the case lessons have been learned.

The end result is my once again standing upon a clear deck looking out over the horizon and trying to figure out which way to point my rudder.