Miami Beach Tropical Lunch, Severe Weather South
Posted by Jeff Gammons on 27 Mar 2007 at 5:00 pm
Tagged as: Florida Weather, Jeffs Personal, Current Severe WX
Just getting back from a outstanding morning and afternoon in Miami Beach, Florida, where we spent much of the day relaxing and taking in the awesome tropical weather today. I was born and raised in Southeast Florida, so the greater Miami and Ft Lauderdale area is home to me. I moved north to West Palm Beach when I was 18 and then to Okeechobee in 2003, but I have always visit home. I’m sure I will return to the city and the wild busy SFLA one day.
Kersten and I had lunch on Ocean Drive, where the winds off the ocean were warm and gusty, and the water was a awesome blue-green color. The sidewalk café’s were jumping and there were a lot of Spring Breakers and northern folks still enjoying the tropical scenes of Miami 
Beach. You couldn’t ask for a better day weather-wise to hang out on the Miami strip. Kersten went into a few shops, while I walked around shooting video and photographs of the Buildings and local scene.
As we looked north up A1A we could see a group of 4-6 helicopters hovering over North Miami Beach. At first we thought maybe they were filming a movie, which is normal down here, or maybe Britney Spears was back in town shaving some one else’s head now. Well it turns out there was a stand off with SWAT officers as a bank robber was held up in a building with a hostage. As of this post, they were still in the stand off with the hostage situation, and several schools were in lock down as well.
It was nice to hang out in my old stomping grounds and have lunch, catch up on some old locations I use to visit and just enjoying the nice weather. I have and always will be a tropical man, and live some where in the tropical temp zones. I’d love to have a home in the Bahamas or lower Keys, but I’ll keep dreaming for now. Well, were off to JJ’s practice baseball game this evening, so I better get off this computer and go get ready.
Oh, I see there is a Tornado Watch active in Arkansas and Louisiana, and see reports of Golfball sized hail in Plains Dealing, LA located in Bossier, County. Radar showing a few isolated small compact severe storms moving north and east of Shreveport, LA at this time. At least some one is getting storms again today. I’ll be monitoring.
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Jeff I’m glad you like it down there. I wasn’t born there but I spent 11 years in Pompano. Just had to get somewhere with some open spaces! Man there are so many people down there.
I often spent a lot of times in the everglades fishing. It was so nice to get out there and not here a car horn, siren, or any other type of noise. Ocala is definitely more laid back but I do miss the everglades. Loxahatchee was a great place to go.
Hey Dave,
Yeah I still have family that lives in Pompano. Really most of my family lives between West Palm Beach and Ft Lauderdale. It’s a great place, but like you said, very busy.
Ocala is a pretty cool town. I’ll be up that way next month for a few days… first Gainsville and then Jacksonville. North Florida, a whole other Florida… at least to me.