The very worse of hurricane Frances is over for Central Florida, however, we are still getting the outer bands from the back of the storm. We're having high winds and strong squalls and rain that may never end. The ditches are flooding both into the streets and yards, most of the intersections in the neighborhood are under water. There is a great deal of tornadic activity in the area.
Now the eye of the storm is in the Gulf of Mexico and has slowed her forward movement and is intensifying. She is expected to make landfall around 2pm today somewhere between Apalachicola and Tallahassee (sounds bad for St. George Island).
The powers that be are telling us not to use up all of the supplies we've laid in for this storm if we can help it and not to unboard our homes. Ivan is following on the heels of Frances and we will probably know by Friday just what his impact on Florida will be.
We lost power last night at 9:30. It came back on this morning at 5:30...Thank God!!!!! Throughout Florida an estimated 5,000,000 people are still without power and probably will be for a while.
Outside it looks like a storm has been through area. Fancy that! I waded over to Jackie's house this morning and got her paper. They delivered both yesterday's and today's bundled as one. Jackie isn't home and the paper would have been soaked if I hadn't gotten it.
We're all being told to stay home and off of the roads today. So I will.
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