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Thank God!
I have been so worried! I have three T.V.'s on in my house with the "Weather Channel" on two and CNN on the other one.
I've been trying to call Karen since last night, and her phones (home and cell) are obviously out.

I picked up my cell phone again a few minutes ago, and as soon as I started calling her, my home phone rang! It was Karen's daughter!

She said the electric, well EVERYTHING, was out, and Karen had given her my number to call and let me know she was O.K.

Hopefully she'll be back on here soon with all the details.

Cindy

THATS good news

Great, I was getting worried.......hopefully they haven't taken any serious damage to their home......

Cindy, thanks for the update on karen , great that she is alright, l bet its no pic-nic for her though. Hope she comes through unscathed.
lt must be really frightening for her and the family

Doreen.

Cindy, thanks for letting us know.

Karen called awhile ago, and said she didn't know when they'd have electricity. But, she's making the most of it with "family bonding"! (I wonder how long that can last without someone getting an eye poked out! )
The neighbor next to her had a big tree fall on their house, and came right on inside! No one was hurt, though. She had other neighbors that had quite a lot of damage also. Karen was very fortunate! I'm sure she had damage, but it wasn't as bad as some.

Hope she gets her electricity back on soon!

Cindy

That IS good news!!!!!!!!!

Thank goodness!!
I had been wondering!!!

AT least we know all is okay!!!

Weezie

I'll be sending all of these to her and all of the Floridians!!!

Thanks Cindy for keeping in touch with her too!!!

Weezie

yay! glad she is alright!

I've only got a few minutes on here.

We still don't have power and don't know when we will have any...As I'm typing this, the rain is pelting the building. We finally got water yesterday afternoon late.

There is extensive damage all around us...we don't have any damage at all to our home(thank god!)

Physically we are all fine...mentally I'm going nuts(I'm starting to understand the movie "the shining" )

There is still an abnormal amount of hummingbirds all over my yard. I wonder if they are evacuees from down south...Is that possible?

The power went out at 6:50pm Sat. right before the nascar race. My hubby and his racing fanatic friends were NOT going to miss the race so they all went out to our van and watched the race there DURING the worst part of the storm.. MEN! I could tell everytime something happened in the race as the van would start rocking!! They had a small fridge of cold beer plugged in to the van so they were quite happy. I stayed in the house and watched the raw fury of the storm as it came through... there were transformers blowing out everywhere...it looked like a fireworks show! Everything that wasn't secured went flying by...tables,chairs,boxes,even at one point a tent. There have been numerous tornados all over our area...1 was only about 1/4 mile away(we heard it and ran for the closet)

We are cooking everything on the grill...even coffee!! Thank god for cast iron cookware.

I am missing ya'll terribly and can't wait for power so I can come back.

Gotta run..they're shutting this off cause we have another tornado warning in our area...the touchdown is a mile away

SO HAPPY TO SEE THIS POST! ! !

PLEASE stay safe!

Cindy

Karen, so glad to hear from you......and yes, stay safe! Glad to hear that there isn't any damage to your home, and that you are all okay....

I would've been out in the van with the men too!! Can't miss Nascar! Who does he like by the way?

I hope that you can keep in touch with us, and that the tornados stay away from your house....I'm putting an invisible force field around your home right now....

Sure am glad to hear you are alright....those hurricanes/tornado's must be the scariest thing ever. Earthquakes aren't anything compared to what you are going through.

What the heck is causing all the repeated hurricanes lately?? We need Loz's dad on here to explain.

Sending more prayers your way

Its the weather patterns.They were like this in the late 40's to 60s also.I'm just another weathernut too hurricanes just fascinate me.

Here is an intresting one.was a TX storm in late 1800'sand wiped the town out completely.This is good place to hang durring hurricane.I learn more durring season cause is more going on and chatt too.There's info with drop down menuas at top.if you click in some of the discussions some will go into detail why what does what& is a glossary in top menu also,but some will add its menaing in hypoth..I tried to find the post about the weather patterns.its burried now with all the traffic on /sunday.
Glad your ok karen.hope most your plants pull through.
I followed Ham radio with this one.FL really needs more ham radio operators,some areas not covered.Ham radios help get info to NHC and related athoritys like police& fire.think weather channel was as least entertaining,but FOX did great coverage,CNN did till they got tired.was a long& huge storm.Was over 1000 miles wide& had hurricane force winds from center out of up to 185 at times 100-115 mph and some higher gusts.when an eyewallpasses the winds constant in oe direction then when eyes back end goes winds in opposite direction which causes more damage.stuff gets weakend blowing one way then gets whipped the other way& snaps or gives way.I'm glad it weakened b4 comeing on shore.
2 more months of hurricane season.

thank God you and yours are ok.

Good to hear from you.

I am so glad to hear that everyone is safe. We are East of Atlanta and got 6 - 8 in. of rain in the last 24 hrs. and had no power for about 13 hours, but that is nothing to what everyone in Florida has put up with over the last few weeks, and Ivan is coming next.



Prayers and well wishes to all

YIPPEE...WE GOT POWER!!

We were starting to go a little stir crazy from boredom(Cindy you were right "family bonding" is only good for a day or two ) I mean you can only play games for so long and its hard to play after dark when you have no lights!

All the extra hummers have left to go back to wherever they came from. I'm glad they evacuated here cause they were an amazing sight!

Our home is intact but our neighbors were not so lucky...one of them had a full size pine tree rip out of the ground and literally split their home in half(I heard it happen and ran over in the pouring rain,barefoot,to help get them out) They were not injured but their home is history. The pine tree also ripped the water lines out of the ground(thats why we lost water Sunday and Monday). Another neighbor had a branch go straight through their roof and end up in their living room(We helped them cut it up and patch the roof temporarily). Stupid me,I kept going out in the rain to help people and now I've got a stuffy head and sore throat.

We are still getting bands of rain but are starting to see patches of blue sky. Will be VERY glad when all the rain stops!

All of my lillies are flattened but I think they will pop back up when it dries out some. My roses lost alot of their branches but I figure they needed pruning anyway. My 4 o'clocks are on the ground so I'm gonna stake them and see what happens. My banana tree lost most of its leaves. The last of my veggies are lost(I still had tomatos,bell peppers and green beans growing). Only one of my birdhouses was lost,thank goodness it was the one without any birds in it. Overall my yard isn't in too bad of shape. I'm going to go around with the duct tape and some stakes and repair what I can.

I'm so glad this whole mess is over with.

Thanks for all of your prayers and good wishes(for all we know that might be why there is absolutely no damage to our home

that's worse than no power!!

See...I told you!
"Family Bonding" isn't all the shrinks have it cracked up to be!
I went to the shrink that touted "Give me my space!!!"

I missed you!
So good to see you here!
Cindy

P.S. You can STILL call me whenever you want!

Karen, weren't you scared to death staying in your house? I don't think I could've.....I'd be the first wimp heading out....lol I'm not very brave if you haven't figured it out.......were your kids scared? So glad you are all okay.

We weren't scared because we knew it wasn't going to be a direct hit in our area. If it had been...we were gonna be OUT OF HERE. Probably would have descended on Cindy. The kids kept asking...is this all there is...and when will the power be on to play video games

Karen

That's so cool about the hummingbirds. Listen to this. We had rain and they started school here two hours late yesterday. Go figure. Glad you're fine. Sorry for those who didn't fair so well.

My husbands family, his sister and brothers, don't get together for anything. Not Christmas, not Thanksgiving, not anything. If they ever did, we'd have to call out the National Guard.

so... karen, you ready for ivan? looks like i'll be getting more of it than i did frances.... ugh...

Bring it ON! Andy turned our entire basement into an awesome apartment so he could go down there when he's in one of his a-hole moods. BIG T.V., new computer, the works! Funny thing is, when he's being a jerk he decides to stay up here and make my life a living

Cindy

My hubby used to have one those too! I even made him a wooden sign that said doghouse and he hung it over the door. We still have the sign,its in his shed now

There are rumors flying around regarding rationing gas. Its just a rumor,the governor gave a news conference to say that there is plenty of gas and more on the way ,but people are getting really nasty about it. Arguments and fights are breaking out at the gas stations. When george went to fill up the van he had to wait in line behind 7 people. When it was his turn some crazy lady cut him off(almost hit him ) and then proceeded to cuss him out cause he was driving a "gas hog" Everybody(including george) pitched a fit cause she thought she was too good to wait in line like everybody else. One woman went to her and took the pump nozzle away from her and proceeded to tell her what she thought of her. They ended up in a scuffle. Why are people sooo mean and stupid?

Karen

for those of us old enough to remember... it was like that in the 70's...

Hey! I remember that!