The strange Ex Hurricane Patricia

The remains of hurricane Patricia passed through here-southern Louisiana-yesterday and last night. It is the strangest “hurricane” I have ever been through. Of course the high winds and surge are absent, but the size of the weather system just seemed incredible. It was clearly a tropical storm, it had that sound and feel, but it’s size made it unique in my experience. When the eye-wall winds (can’t be sure those were eye-wall winds but they sure sounded like it) passed through last night it took an hour and a half. Usually such things are over in 30 minutes. Every time I looked at the radar, the storm was moving briskly northeast as expected. I would check the radar again a few hours later and the storm was in the same place moving briskly northeast as expected. I felt like I was in some kind of time loop. We didn’t happen to get a lot of rain, but New Orleans and Baton Rouge got a lot. It will take a while for those areas to drain off.
No damage unless your car was in a low spot, so that is good.
A very strange storm…