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This is the time of the year that I hate that my girlfriend is living in Florida: hurricane season. Tallahassee isn't exactly the biggest target on the map, and luckily enough the last 6 years in a row the hurricanes didn't hit that area hard, but yesterday and today tropical storm Fay did hit. And this time Carrie didn't escape the effects of the storm: a huge tree fell in the backyard, hit the pool but missed the house by three yards. My girlfriend is taking shelter in the hallway of her own home: scary! Fay is on it's way to Louisiana but lot's of areas in Tallahassee are hit and even Lake Ella (less than a mile from Carrie's home) is flooded. Here in Holland we had our fair share of bad weather (even a small tornado) but nothing compares to a tropical storm. The Tallahassee area got hit with at least 30 inches of rain: that's a staggering 80cm! As you can imagine most damage is from the rain and not so much from the winds.