Tropical Storm Fay in north Stuart, FL

The storm is not so different from others -- there is a prevailing wind and a steady downpour with some gusting, no thunder or lightning. When walking about Kingswood Condo complex, the usual wildlife sounds remain the same -- a bit louder and closer since all the areas that puddle during rainstorms have more downpour to contain on intra-complex roadway and lawn areas between cement-block (heavy) dwelling structures. Yesterday afternoon a city crew came in to pump water from an especially flooded common roadway.

During the late-night/early morning hours, a few nearby automobile horns were set off without anyone contained within the vehicles, loudly sounding near flooded complex roadways when the rain suddenly stopped (after an acrylic blanket was placed against our unit doorway to block water seeping in as gusted onto the second-floor common railed walkway).

During a mid-afternoon walk to the retaining-pond/slough area beside Kingswood Terrace Road, a large black merganser was sighted gliding through waters flowing and pooling from the east through the ditchlike slough, such that the area resembled a run or (historically-documented) small creek emptying into the St. Lucie River over a small dam that controls water-flow moving beneath the St. Lucie Boulevard roadway directly beside the river proper. Other reasons the dam exists include control of large aquatic wildlife that might want to haul themselves out into the sandy trailway pool.