As afternoon rain returns to downtown St Augustine, we aren’t seeing the lightening that showed this morning, but there is a different hazard to avoid — pedestrians and cars that do not know where to turn.

At 10:08 a.m. the first bright flash of lightening and clap of thunder, separated by no more than one or two seconds, signaled that the downpour was imminent. And, it was. A sheeting rain, interrupted by occasional recurrence of nature’s light show, sent what few people who had been milling around on a search for cover.

Laurie Sanderson reported the following St Augustine and St Johns County locations to Historic City News where the Florida Department of Transportation will be conducting roadwork that is expected to have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the coming week.