Hey - anyone in Florida?

[Asylum Steve]

...won't be online too much in the next couple of days. Just a bunch of last minute stuff to do...

Actually. I'm more worried about my friends in Miami Beach, but they'll be moving to higher ground soon enough.

I'll let everyone know if anything exciting happens around here...

Be Careful! I see that hurricane looks like it will be worse than the last one! Check in over the weekend!

[Peter_AUS]

Good luck tomorrow with the Hurricane everyone, looks like a pretty bad one heading up towards Florida, supposed to be twice as bad as the last one.

[Asylum Steve]

Thanks for the concern...

It looks now (Friday morning) like Frances is not only slowing down, wind wise, but slowing greatly in its travel speed.

It's been downgraded to a Cat 3 Hurricane, and is actually taking a turn to the north.

Bottom line is it looks like not a whole lot more than heavy heavy rain for my area.

BTW, beautiful day today so far...

[MJS]

Nothing but a little rain in Miami yet. It looks like we are going to get lucky. My 14 year old and I spent the all of yesterday hanging shutters and cleaning up the construction site where we are adding on. We had one house blown around our ankles, so we take this stuff pretty seriously. Will it have all been a waste of time if we don't get hit? Heck no! We get a longer holiday weekend, time to play plenty of board gamesm nerf game battles, read, etc., and mostly make sure that the family hurricane plan works. Steve, I hope your friends are doing well and that you don't get much of the nasty stuff. Were you affected by Charley? My parents, in-laws, brother in-law and sister's tribe all live near Ft. Myers and got a taste of that one.

Simple moral of the story, don't mess with mother nature and make sure you follow the weather guys. Half the time, they know what they are talking about. It's just not good to try and guess what half they are on.

MJS