My thoughts are with ANYONE that is being affected by this hurricane.  Stay safe, Ella, and let us know you are OK after it passes.

Any other Floridians, we are hoping for the best for all of you.

Hi Ella, my thoughts and prayers are with you too. We have big storms here but never hurricanes. How do you prepare for them?

I live in Tallahassee.

Frances is down to a tropical storm but it just swerved off into the gulf and now it's still headed right for us.

They're saying it might regain power while it's over the gulf and become a hurricane again.

We prepare for hurricanes by putting up hurricane shutters (if we can), buying lots of bottled water and canned food and batteries in case we lose power...and in a more unstable place (like, in my old apartment where I grew up in Miami) we would take breakables and wrap them up in blankets and put them in the closets, and take things off the walls and put them in the closets too so they wouldn't go flying if the building got rocked...but I live in a dorm building now that is basically a block of concrete with windows, so I just bought supplies for a power outage and didn't bother to do anything about the breakables.

It looks like we're not going to get hit very hard. But there's Ivan waiting out there in the Atlantic, too.

This is a very unusual hurricane season.

Ella

Wow,

That was a wimpy storm.

The center went straight through here and all the while we thought it was just the outer edges. Just rain. Rain. Rain. And winds a bit stronger than usual.

We're all laughing now because people were predicting another Hurricane Andrew and then it fizzled out like that. And, classes were cancelled today. And the weather is fine.   

That is all. We didn't even lose power. It flickered, like, twice.

Ella

LOL!  Funny how you get all excited about a bad storm, and then are disappointed when it wimps out on you. 

Glad that you survived easily!

Even here in North Carolina we are getting a TON of rain and wind.  Today alone we've gotton 4 inches.

Glad to hear things weren't too bad for you, ella.

And I'm the same way when it comes to natural disasters. Last summer there was a huge storm on the lake where my family has a small ( and very old) cottage that knocked down tons of power lines and trees and blew the roofs right off a row of condos. Luckily we were protected in a small bay, and me and my dad & siblings sat on the sunporch watching the rain and beach toys blowing across the lake with the electricity out. My stepmom thought we were crazy - and it really probably wasn't too safe - but I loved it.

And I'd totally be one of those psychos chasing after a tornado with a video camera.  8)

Maybe Mother Nature is just PMS-ing.  

Hopefully everyone will be OK.  I'm sending my "weather" thoughts out there to try to get Ivan to either change course or at least drop down in size to be less damaging.

Come on, everybody, if we think hard enough, maybe we can change the course of Ivan.

Ella and everybody in the South,

I hope you folks are doing alright. We haven't seen you on the board for awhile so.. just checking. Happy thoughts and prayers to all.

Hugs,
Anais

YEA!!!!!  Glad to hear everything is OK.