Well Tracy, whatever it is that eventually comes your way I wish you the best. Sounds like this one is going to be relatively "tame" compared to others in the past.

Stay safe.

Mike

>Not entirely true. Tropical Storm Bonnie is not due to arrive here until the middle of the night/early tomorrow morning. We have already had strong winds, lots of rain, and 3 tornados in our state. More fun tomorrow with Bonnie and Saturday when Charley gets here. In the past when we were in the worst part of a hurricane we actually received the least damage. It's the ones that skirt us or when we are on the fringes of it that seem to do the most damage it seems from heavy rains causing flooding and downed trees as well as tornadoes. Doesn't look like this will be anything like Hurricanes Fran, Floyd, and Hazel though -- thank goodness! One Hurricane we received 11 inches of rain. Surprisingly, we have survived a LOT of rain in the past from hurricanes but it took just a summer storm to cause the most damamge near my home:
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>http://www.enn.com/news/2003-05-28/s_4630.asp
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>My house sits between the two creeks and water flowed to within 4 feet of my house in a RUSH. It was amazing to watch but terrifying at the same time.
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>The police came to evacuate AFTER the water subsided! Sheesh...
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>>Hey Denis,
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>>Its not tornados that they need to worry about this time. Its the hurricanes/tropical storms :P
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>>Mike
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>>>>Charlie is supposed to arrive at my house in St. Pete, Florida sometime tomorrow, and I am not happy about it. Therefore, my family and I are heading over to Orlando to stay in a Comfort Suites for a few days (with free wireless, of course).
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>>>>Hopefully, Charlie will see that no one is at home and get a clue that he should just go somewhere else.
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>>>>Biggest evacuation in the history of Pinellas County -- over 380,000 people ordered to leave starting at 6 pm tonight, so we expect a bit of a traffic jam getting across the bridge into Tampa. :-)
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>>>>See you soon...
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>>>When I began to read that thread I wondered (for a couple of seconds) who was that Charlie that came to your house even if he probably knew he was not welcome :->
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>>>Then I remembered the tv news talking a bit about those tornadoes.
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>>>I hope that there won't be major problems causes by those tornadoes.