We're experiencing the outer winds of Wilma now. It's been rainy all night, and there are big gusts, and that's about it. So far, so good. She struck the FL coast early this morning, and should cross the state pretty quick. Then she's headed up the east coast. I hope she doesn't do damage for people south of us. That's where she is now.
Rita has passed by FL, and is on her way to Texas/Louisiana. I'll be thinking "slow down wind" thoughts. She's a category 5 now. Slow down wind, slow down wind!
Hurricane Jeanne is less than 2 days away from landfall on Florida's east coast. Start thinking good, solid foundation, don't lose electricity thoughts for my family! My dad is probably putting up wood on the windows right now! Here are 2 maps I found...
He's coming! It looks like he is about to do a lot of damage to Jamaica. I'll think good thoughts for you, Jamaica. And you, Cuba. And you, Florida Keys. His path is west of Florida now, with landfall much farther north than expected. Whew for my parents (though I'm sure what they experience will still suck majorly and won't be any little storm). Not-so-whew for my friends Kim and John in Tampa. Here's the current prediction map...
Hurricane Frances ripped through Florida this past weekend. Well, more like crawled, at about 7mph. It was as big as the state of Texas. It's still HUGE...
My family lives an hour south of Melbourne, where the brunt of the storm hit. They stayed at a friend's down the street because there were storm shutters on the friend's house. They got through it without incident. Yes, they were without electricity from Sunday to Tuesday, yes they have to throw out a bunch of stuff that defrosted, yes, they lost a lot of sleep because it was hot as balls the whole time. But they're ok, and their home is ok. So yay!
They weren't in the path of Charley, who did some serious damage a couple of weeks ago. Ivan is coming next. He is currently in the Caribbean. It's the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean in 10 years. It's already done damage in Grenada, Barbados, St. Lucia and St. Vincent. It looks like it's headed up to the Gulf Coast, so maybe they'll have a break or a while. (Kim and John, you be careful!)
I'm continually thinking good thoughts for you Florida people!
I say we bring in a new weather manager. Mother Nature doesn't care about her clientele. She doesn't care about the budding trees or the bulbs poking through or the dogs who want to play on the beach. She teased us with a week of glorius weather and then it cooled off for a week and THEN yesterday was 60°F! And NOW, it's a blizzard out there. And it's going to snow 3 - 6 inches. Make up your mind, you moody beeyotch.
Blizzard 2004! We got about 7 inches of snow this morning. No work for me! They decided to close LAST NIGHT (!!!) at 11 pm! Thank you work people! I shoveled for a few hours this morning. A NICE neighbor snow-blowed (hee) a lot of our sidewalks before we even got up this morning! I have to pick up a bottle of wine for him. (I heard he likes red.) I met more neighbors today than I have in the past 3 months! It was a fun morning. Shoveling + hot chocolate = good stuff. Here's our CLEAN driveway!
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