all you south floridians....

[jankey]

hattened down your batches i hope?

--j_a

[Diana Kulaga]

We be fine on the east coast. We'll get lots of rain and a little wind tomorrow. No need to hatchen the batches this time, LOL!

West coast may get more activity. It looks like a Cat 1 for them. That's still not really such a much in the grand scheme of things. It all depends on whether it picks up strength overnight. If it gets a second wind (pun intended), then Tampa will most likely get the worst, and then the panhandle.

'Course, if it's gets too windy tomorrow I guess I'll have to move those swinging Vandas out of the open.

Diana

[Al Pickrel]

Vandas in the wind swinging sadly Vandas in the wind but not to madly 'lest the hurricane get too badly out of hand. And...

[Diana Kulaga]

You're such a supper club animal, Al.......

Diana (Whooosh!)

[Diana Kulaga]

Another update:

We have had significant rainfall, but little wind. Southwest of us, there were tornados touching down. How come the tornados always know where the unstable buildings are? (Don't answer that.) There is an equine center in Palm Beach County that has been virtually destroyed; the horses are okay. The buildings were apparently not particularly well built.

The weather radio started hollering around 4AM, when Igor (that's what we call the mechanical voice) began dooming and glooming. Unnecessarily, Frank said, "Did you hear that?". So we've been up for a while.

The Vandas are fine; the wind, what there has been of it, is coming out of the east, and the house mostly blocks it, as the Vandas are on the west side, and get a southwest exposure for sun all day. Well, not today.

The pool overflowed onto the patio, so the overflow valve is now open (and flooding the lanai floor). All in all, we're just fine. Power is on and we haven't lost much TV reception. (We have a dish, and sometimes in heavy rain we lose the satellite.)

Don't know what's going to happen next with Fay. At the moment it appears to be swinging from west to east, so the Atlantic states may get a bashing. But nobody's really certain where it's going to end up.

Oh, and we gave Casper the Wonder Cat a fresh banky for *his* sofa.

Diana

[jadel]

In a tornado, --nothing-- is that well-built. (annoying emoticon here)

My mother and sister are in Apopka--so far, so good.

J. Del Col

[Paul Simon]

Why do you think they call them mobile homes?

Paul