2 Northeast Florida rains can be especially ominous. Even during the driest of seasons, when the Earth is parched and forests are aflame, the deepening blue of an approaching storm whispers something mean.
Warm winds turn cool, whipping trees and sending trash cans tumbling.
The ring of despair methodically closes, swallowing the light as the sky decides whether or not to empty itself. So moves the dank air as I plant my foot on James David Odum's front porch. He's a man with a rap sheet that includes arrests for domestic battery, battery in a detention facility, DWI and violation of probation. A man who keeps two residences - one on Jacksonville's Westside and another on Walsh Street, in the Avondale neighborhood where I live. It was in the house on Walsh Street that Odum allegedly fondled his girlfriend's niece as she lay in bed.