While the playbook of scary terms and network windbreakers are begrudgingly returned to mothballs, the system, now 140 miles to our south, continues to breakdown and fragment showing less fortitude than the throngs of area mothers ushering kids to the bus stop for the first day of the new school year.

As winds continue to diminish, high surf conditions appear to be the only remaining remnants on tap for the next 24 -36 hours so if anyone is looking for their painter or landscaper during that window, be sure to check your local beaches.