>> ronjons
yes.. thats the one

>> to this day I have never seen rain that bad.
aha - driving is practically impossible. We used to go to Florida quite a bit and some of the worst weather Ive seen has been over there... the weird thing is how quick it comes and goes though isnt it?
I think the worst was the time we were on Palm Beach once.
It was glorious sunshine and we'd been in the sea when the coast guard came screaming up the beach.
"
Clear the beach now. Get off the beach now! theres a bad storm coming."
We could hardly believe it, as the only signs really was that the wind had started to pick up.
We packed our stuff up and hauled everything back to the car, and had just got in when the biggest spots of rain you have ever seen just started.
By the time we all got in the car it was torrential and you really couldnt see much further than a few yards and loose bits from the palm trees and other various debris started blowing all over the place.
That was quite scary as we were unsure what to do and all we could do was sit tight and hope it didnt get much worse. We weren't actually staying in the area as West Palm beach was a picnic type stop-off on the way down to the Keys.
Dunno if youve ever been there, but Palm Beach is a kind of island itself and you have to go over a bridge from West Palm Beach to get to it so we were stuck on the Ocean Boulevard? going nowhere with no real shelter.
Eventually it did calm down a bit, and we were able to drive away and continue our journey to the Keys.