Joe's weekend started off Thursday afternoon in homeroom, where my girls worked busily to finish homework before the hurricane!
On the way home from school, the sky looked ominous. And the McDonald's drive thru line looked short...
At Dixie Highway, one mile east of the ocean, the train-crossing lights flashed and rang, flashed and rang. But no train came.
The surf at high tide, 4pm, had eroded a few feet from Deerfield Beach. The surf, however, was not impenetrable for a lonely body surfer!
According to the Weather Channel, waves reached a height of twelve feet by Thursday, midnight, on the gold coast.