Hurricane season in Florida

How is everyone holding up?

Watching Ike and wondering where he will wander. If anyone's interested in books with Florida hurricanes featured, here's a list: http://faculty.mccfl.edu/jonesj/Flbib/FLHurricanes.htm

Watching Ike here as well. Fortunately Gustav was a non-factor around here but Fay caused a lot of flooding. Even though it's quite early and a lot can happen in a few days, it doesn't look like Ike will head our way.

Wonderful list, janeajones. Looking through it, I realize that I haven't catalogued a little book I picked up in the Florida Keys about 20 years ago. By a local author, it gave first-hand accounts of survivors of the 1935 hurricane. Now, where has the thing gotten off to?

the only really bad one I've experienced directly in my lifetime here was Hugo a few years back. It came right over the house. It was early dark and I opened the sliding glass doors to the uncovered patio, pulled up a chair and watchd the wonderful natural scene of rain "falling" horizontally for half an hour. I then heard something that sounded like a huge elephant was roaming around in my two car garage. When the eye came, I muttered Is that all there is, and lay down to sleep. My door bell rang and my neighbor was out there pounding on the door, shouting a large pine tree had fallen throgh my garage roof. He'd just moved in from up nawth the previous month. I told him that something much more wonderful was going to happen if he didnt get his red-blooded Yankee ass back inside his house. "It ain't over" I yelled to him. "This is just the intermission."

oh yeah...faye. i was in missouri when that hovered around deltona and gave us back five years of drought. it was great for me because i bought on the volusia ridge, about 22 feet above sea level and 30 miles from the atlantic, but those idiots down in Debary to the south, who live on or near the saint johns river and who built on the 50 and 100 year flood plain were swamped. think i feel sorry for them and their quarter-million dollar houises?

nah.

This has been a weird season, just nonstop. I helped get my office prepped for Fay, and that was unnerving. It ended up hardly affecting Tampa at all, and I got a day off from work.

Stay safe and dry, everybody.

God help the folks in Galveston. I just pulled out my copy of Isaac's Storm and flipped through it again. It's half an hour after midnight and I have Fox Radio playing in the background. Galveston is expecting high tide of 15 feet and on top of that, a 20 foot storm surge. Give me the mountains instead of the beach anytime.

Hello my Fellow Floridians and Hurricane riders, we are preparing for another season here. I heard it will be a "slow" season. That sounds great to me, I still have Ivan nightmares.