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I sincerly hope everyone comes out ok. My adoped uncle has an elderly aunt and uncle out in FL. They (the elderly couple) took off for their son's home in central FL. So far, they are ok.
NOAA is always a great site for the dopplar radar and sat. photos. Heck, most of the new agencies get their storm traking info from NOAA.

Batten the hatches down and lay low!!!

for all of you in FL.

http://radar.weather.gov/radar/loop/DS.p20-r/si.kmlb.shtml


Melbourne, FL Radar

Karen,
Is it real windy now?
I'm watching it on the Weather Channel constantly. Those reporters are crazy!
There's stuff (BIG stuff) flying thru the air (signs, lights, etc.) and going right by them!

How far is Melbourne from you?

Its windy but not that windy. Its kinda dark for this time of night and we keep getting heavy downpours. Its supposed to get real yucky tommorrow...winds from 39-73mph & heavy rains. Its going below us so we won't see the BAD stuff. Its supposed to last all day and night.

We've got the board games,cards,candles and flashlights,so we won't be totally bored if the power goes out. We're looking at it as quality "family bonding" time

Karen

Uhhh......you better watch those "family bonding" times!!! I've had a few of those that got ugly!

My family "shuts down" when the electricity goes,
they can not function!!!! <img border="0" alt="[perplexed]" title="" src="graemlins/confused.gif" />
I love it when the lights go out, I like candles
and roughing it, and games and reading a book by candle light..
They can't function without a computer~tv~sound! :p

I have pictures of the 3 of them sleeping on the couch the first time the electricity went out when the wee~one was just born...so cute!!!!

I dislike the candles now with the kids, but we bought a weather ban 4" screen tv combo with radio, flashlight, 2 bulb flourencent light, siren, etc.... when the Eastern Blackout happened, we needed something for the kids to have in with them and not be afraid they'd get hurt....

Weezie

Fortunately our kids(11 & 13) love to play family games...we usually have 1 night a week devoted to playing games with them.
We've lost power many times over the night and just had a brownout/surge. I had to check in here though. I'll be checking in as often as I can.

Gonna shut down now before another outage occurs.

Karen

keep us posted... i'm just getting lots of rain from it.... lost power once yesterday, but think that was some idiot who couldn't drive...

The squall passed by and before the next one comes in I had to jump on here and tell ya'll something really cool that just happened.

I realized I had left my hummingbird feeders hanging outside..so when it stopped raining I ran outside to take them down. There were 3 hummers at one and 4 hummers at the other. When the 3 hummers left the first one I walked on out and took it down...before I could walk 5 steps there were 2 hummers flying around me chattering a mile a minute..I looked around and there were hummers ALL OVER my yard! They were hitting the mexican petunias,the bat-face plant,the lantana and even on my roses! I stopped and held the feeder up and after a few moments.. they came to the feeder I was holding!!! It was sooooo amazing

Gardenmom,
Glad you are OKAY!!
I sat up and watched the tv for a loooooong time last night, I haven't put it on as of yet, got lot's to do today but wanted to make sure how you were doing!!

Poor little birdies are probable scared too. They were probably glad to find food on your property, probably not much left in some places!!!

Weezie

Dang, I bet a lot of hummingbirds will get killed.

Brennan will NOT carry the hummingbird feeders back to the hangers anymore. One landed on the feeder he was carrying a few weeks ago and he FREAKED and threw the feeder!
I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants!
He's afraid of them, I think because he thinks they will sting him. (Or maybe Lola has given him a BAD impression of birds!) He had a red shirt on one day and they were swarming him, so I changed his shirt and they left him alone.

Karen...I hope you get to keep checking in and letting us know what's going on. Don't forget...you have my home and cell numbers, so call whenever you want to if you can. Don't worry...I will be calling YOU (if I can get through) if we don't hear from you for awhile.

Cindy

We've been without power for the past 5 hours. It just came back on and didn't want ya'll to worry so I figured I had better check in.

I was the first one bankrupt in monopoly(the kids LOVED that ). They are really getting competitive now. George(my hubby) and Alex(my 13yo son) are trying to out he-man each other

Be back later!

Karen

Glad to hear you are doing okay Karen.....and enjoying your family bonding time......is there any damage around your area, or to your home??? I hope not.....

That's amazing about the hummingbirds.....

Dang, I missed you, Karen! You came on right after I got back off! Brennen was watching the hurricane on the news and asked about my friend in Florida, so we got on here to see if you had posted anything. We were thnking about sending you a text message on your cell phone! Glad to see that you posted.

OK...here's my strategy for always winning at Monopoly:
#1) ALWAYS be the banker! (Endless supply of cash! )
#2) Play with children that haven't learned to count yet!

Cindy

Oh, yeah.....if you live where they pump the water with electricity, make sure you have your tub filled up in case the electricity goes off! It's always nice to be able to flush the commode!

The satellite link shows major stuff going on over Gardenmom's.
Cindy

Have we heard from Gardenmom since this afternoon????
Just wondering how she's doing!!!

Weezie

Nope. Her last post was a little after 3 p.m.

I sent her a text over the cell awhile ago, but I doubt if they even have cell service at this point. The radar looks awful over Jacksonville right now.

I will call her first thing tomorrow if she hasn't posted by morning.

Cindy

Praying and hoping that karen is staying safe!!!!!

My prayers are with all of you who have endured the rampage of the hurricane. I live in KS and many times have watched twisters tooooooo close to my home. Thank God we have never taken a direct hit. So sad to see what you have worked for all your life snuffed out in a a few moments. God works in mysterious way - some times we sure don't agree and like to argue - but in the end He usually has a plan for us. Take care. Sal in ks

i'm sorry it's taken me so long to check in here. i hope you all are ok. karen i hope things are ok for you and nothing was damaged too bad. how's the flooding? sheesh i hope you are alright. how are the kids taking everything? we moved up north from south florida almost 2 years ago and i still feel guilty. all my family is there and i feel guilty being happy i'm not there while at the same time worried about all of them. UGH! south florida seemed to be alright. they all just lost electricity since saturday afternoon, but other than that everything is ok. now they all just have to wait for ivan.

www.Storm2k.org
good forum to be for hurricane info.especially for the 2 hr updates.

Hope ya'll get missed for ivan.I think he's heading to redneck vegas instead.

HI,
Isn't Pineapple Raye from Florida??
Has he been heard from? Hope everything is ok.

We won't get anything like most places--thankfully, however we are supposed to get a lot of heavy rain tommorrow and that worries me.....where I live it's like a big stadium.....mountains all around and the valley in the middle......so downtown will probably be a mess, and lots of flooded basements......

Check out my weather album, that was just from several inches of rain....we are supposed to get 5-10 inches....

too much water pics...

Anyone in the path of the remnants had any flooding? Jiffy?