Good morning.
All is well here on my street. Here in SE Florida, because of Hurricane Andrew, structures have to be built according to the much stricter South Florida Building Code. So we have a lot of broken trees and people with no electricity, but besides trailers, people's homes are intact here in Broward. There's going to be more rain, and we are under a flood watch until tonight. Everything's good.
This morning we'll have the usual people getting electrocuted by downed power lines. One poor man met one at a bus stop this morning in Miami. When you see kids outside playing it just makes you cringe. We'll have the tail of the storm coming through throughout the day as the storm makes its way across Florida.
King Neptune Rules
The Orlando Sentinel has a link to live streaming TV coverage there and news of the storm for all of central Florida as Jeanne travels.
James Gillie, of Vero Beach, gestures as he signals he's glad to be alive
Posted by floridacracker at September 26, 2004 09:45 AM
Good (in the appropriately relative sense) to hear all that. Glad you're still safe and ok.
Posted by: fad at September 26, 2004 09:53 AMno electric here since 1:00 last night.
Posted by: cindy at September 26, 2004 10:35 AMThanks, Fad. Everything's copacetic on my road. I'm sorry for all the folks who're getting hammered again.
Cindy, where are you for the storm?
Posted by: Donnah at September 26, 2004 10:38 AMFort Myers and my batteries back-up is dying
Posted by: Cindy at September 26, 2004 11:02 AMI thought that's where you were. I talked to my mama this morning and she didn't lose power in NFM, thank goodness. Whereabouts is your house? How'd your daughter fare?
Posted by: Donnah at September 26, 2004 11:08 AMI'm in SFM. My daughter did alright she still has power and no damage. They were going up to Lantana to check on her future mom-inlaws double-wide. Cross your fingers.
Stuck on dial-up till my laptop battery dies. Battery on DSL already did.
Posted by: Cindy at September 26, 2004 11:26 AMWe still have power where I am in Cape Coral (which is amazing since we were almost the last in Lee County to get power back after Charley). I'm in South Cape Coral so if you get real desperate...
Posted by: Kathy K at September 26, 2004 11:38 AMHere in Orlando we still have electricity in my neighborhood, but no cable. I'm on dial-up today, which is really a pain. Lots of wind and rain, but so far, I don't see any trees down from my vantage point. (So many fell with Charley, I suspect the ones that remain are the tough ol' gals of the forest!)
Glad to see you survived, all!
Posted by: Pious Agnostic at September 26, 2004 01:05 PMI'm just outside of Davenport at I4 & 27. No cable but power and phone.
It's still blowing pretty good over here. It's slowed down in the last half hour, but still getting some pretty serious gusts.
Glad to see you're alright! Ya'll hang in there.
Posted by: Tammi at September 26, 2004 03:18 PMBet you thought you were gonna get to blog about life and politics huh?
Might as well get a job at the Weather Channel I guess.
Posted by: IXLNXS at September 26, 2004 06:15 PMLOL. Freakin' hurricanes every damn week.
Posted by: Donnah at September 26, 2004 07:57 PMI'm happy to report that Broward County dodged the bullet again... but we've decided to put up the plywood every year on June 1st until the season ends in November... ;)
Glad to see you're okay!
Posted by: pam at September 27, 2004 09:50 AMSounds good to me!
Posted by: Donnah at September 27, 2004 02:32 PM