Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Joyce Connolly and her daughters left their home in Hurricane, W.
Va., to head south for a Memorial Day beach vacation — and ended up in the center of Tropical Storm Beryl.While it left little damage after sweeping ashore with 70 mph winds around midnight Sunday at Jacksonville, Fla., the storm still wrecked much of Connolly's trip. She skipped a graduation ceremony because powerful winds kept her and her daughters from venturing past the beach boardwalk when the storm approached Sunday. She also postponed their drive home Monday as Beryl, downgraded to a tropical depression, continued to dump rain near the Georgia-Florida state line."It definitely changed our vacation to unfortunate circumstances that we're not happy with. But you just have to live with it," said Connolly, who at least found the irony of her hometown's name "pretty funny."Beach trips, backyard barbecues and graveside Memorial Day observances got a good soaking in southeastern Georgia and northern Florida.Beach lifeguar...President Obama urged Americans to pay tribute to veterans on Memorial Day , saying the nation all too often has "failed to live up to that responsibility."In his we...
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