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As bad as it is there is some good to all the rain it will bring, especially on top of the good rains we've already had this year. My grandparents had a place on Lake Calm, up where you are, back in the early 50's and the water level in the lakes was at least 15 feet above what it is now. Those lakes have been suffering for years from Pinellas County getting most of its potable water from wells up in NW Hillsborugh County. I don't wish this storm on anyone, but the rain event will be helpful in replenishing the water table and aquifer in this area. It's been a long time since we've had anything even close to this sort of storm and the rainfall it can bring. It's storms like these over the thousands of years that helped make Florida what it is and without them we will slowly lose our lakes and rivers, etc.

Lake Calm is about 2 miles from me. I'm on Garden Lake.

They slowed the rate of wellfield production about 3 years ago. Now our lake is quite high. We have SWFWMD scale in the water behind our property, and it's been staying fairly consistent.