The first storm band just went through. Geez. It was kinda scary. I was trying to pull together some stuff for my "safe space" and all I could hear was the warning buzzer on the TV. Rather unnerving to say the least.
We had some Big T's touching down and heading my way. BTW - I'm on the weather channel pretty regularly. If you're looking at the map of Florida, I'm near Davenport. Between Orlando and Tampa. They've been showing the intersection of I4 and SR27. Yeah, that's right where I'm at. (just in case you're following along at home)
I can see the next storm band coming this way. Charley is hitting Sannibel and Captiva right now and heading straight for Charlotte Harbor. I feel so bad for those people. This morning it was a Cat 2 and looking to blindside Tampa. Now, half a day later it's a Cat 4 and knocking on their door. There's going to be a lot of damage. Hopefully the loss of life won't be too bad.
They are saying he will stay a hurricane as he comes across the state of Florida. Disney and Universal Studios could suffer some major damage. Plus, everyone from the coast headed here to avoid the storm surge. Well, it looks like that's about all they're going to be missing.
I made sure and packed a bag, including my work boots. No matter how it effects here, there is going to be some heavy duty clean up work to be done. I rode down to Miami a couple of times after Andrew to deliver a truck of water and another truck of baby formula and diapers. I'll be there to help with this clean up too.
Anyway, thought I'd pop in while there was a break in the lightening. I'll let you know as it goes on. It shouldn't be here for another few hours, at least.
Posted by Tammi at August 13, 2004 02:44 PMWell, sounds like it's gonna be a fun few days for you. Just be sure to unplug everything whenever the lightning gets bad enough. We don't want your computer fried if there's a close lightning strike! BTW - that includes computer PHONE LINE too!!!
With storms, all you can do is hunker down and wait it out. As long as you come through safely, that's what really counts!
Posted by: Teresa at August 13, 2004 02:54 PM