* From social media to traditional mass media, we’ve all seen countless photos of what happens around here when we get too much rain over too little time. While abandoned vehicles on Kennedy Boulevard were a surprise, it was no-wake-zone-as-usual on easily overwhelmed Bayshore Boulevard.
Among the Bayshore images that were ubiquitous: the couple who were blithely floating along in inflatable rafts last Saturday. One quick question: What part of E. coli don’t you understand? The view through the balustrade might be captivating, but that’s brackish, sewer-water ambience all around you. Sure, it might look inviting, but in all its contaminant variety and menace, doesn’t coliform count?
* The drenching downpours were a reminder that One Buc Place, a first-class headquarters and practice compound, doesn’t have what most big-time college programs now have: an indoor facility. The first day of media-magnet practice: rained out of One Buc and relocated to USF.
Actually, it’s been revealed that the Bucs are now on the case and there are plans to have something indoors by 2016.