Tropical storm blowout

Early on Monday the sun kept trying to break out

High tide and good wave action at the beach

A quartet of seagulls played dodge-the-waves

ORMOND BEACH, FL - - Hurry up and wait best describes our weekend with hurricane / tropical storm Isaias.  How do you describe a storm whose name you can 't pronounce?  (According to Google,  the name is a modified version  of Hebrew for Isaiah.)
     Friday was "batten down the hatches" by securing or moving to a sheltered spot anything which might take flight in the projected 70mph winds.  Gas for the portable generator we have; fresh flashlight batteries; candles and matches were also on the list.  Why a list?  We haven't spent a summer in OB but once in the past 13 years.
    And then the wait.  The storm crawled up a path off the Florida coast on Saturday.  The slow crawl continued on Sunday.  Until 7pm when a band of showers spawned by the storm blew through with heavy rain and strong, gusty winds. 
     The havoc lasted all of 20 minutes.  And that was it.  Sure we got a fair bit of gusting winds during the night, but by dawn Isaias was up the coast and heading for North Carolina. 
     In reality, this was good practice for the next storms coming our way...and there will be more.  Hurricane season lasts until early October.