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Approaching the west coast of Florida around Fort Myers on UA1142 we were greeted by a wall of thunder storms.

Daily Photo – Storm over Fort Myers

As we approached the west coast of Florida I saw a wall of cloud to the south-east, pretty much aligned with the coast, illuminated from the setting sun to the west. I shot several frames of the scene with my Canon S100.

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Surfside Beach

Daily Photo – Surfside Beach

This was the scene around lunchtime on a Thursday near the end of May.

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Memories of Hurricane Ike

It was a dark and stormy night No, really, it was. Three years ago, on the 7th anniversary of 9/11, my family was among millions of others preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Ike. Our lives had been changed three years before that with the devastation wrought on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. Then, with our house in Katy filled with family members who had evacuated New Orleans, we all evacuated when hurricane Rita came rolling in a few weeks […]

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