>>I went thru Alicia in 1983 when it clobbered our area. And I don't think it was anywhere near Ivan's power. So yeah, I'd be scared.
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>>Fool I was at that age, a buddy of mine and I actually drove home from a concert we worked at during the hurricane. One of the few times I've ever seen the freeways empty...things blowing everywhere, transformers exploding all over the place...had to cross a downed powerline to get to my place. You might think we were out of our minds for trying it...and yeah, you'd be right. We kinda were.
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>I remember. I was living in Houston at the time of Alicia (August '83).
>Then I was living in Miami when Andrew (August '92).
>And last week, I went through Frances.
>Ivan seems to be the worst of all of these.

I've never witnessed one of these. Today here we had the remains of Frances. We were supposed to have around 3 to 4 inches of rain throughout the day. I'm not sut how much we got. We also had some stronger winds than usual.

I guess that the guy (or gal) in charge of the weather up there must be thinking.

"They already have their share of bad weather. If on top of that I throw them tornadoes it would'nt be fair. But I'll just scare them a bit just to let them know that it could be worst."

;-)