The Atlantic looks like a plate of sunny side up eggs that no one wants to show up at their breakfast table. You can see the remnants of Gustave covering the mid-west states. Following on his heels are Tropical Storm Hanna, Hurricane Ike and Tropical storm Josephine. The three of them are making a 3000 mile long conga line across the Atlantic. It makes for some pretty interesting weather reports.
Hanna will be more of a problem to the Carolina's and Georgia. There is still lots of room for error, but right now it looks like she will pass by Florida without causing more trouble than some high surf warnings.
Ike, on the other hand, is a problem. He went from a category 1 to a category 4 between the 5 and 11 PM news reports this evening. He's also small - like Charlie and Andrew were. Charlie hit south west Florida by Ft. Meyers and we barely felt a breeze. Andrew devastated the Miami area and we didn't get much of his action either. They both were initially forecasted to hit our part of the state with Charlie coming directly into Tamp Bay and Andrew crossing central Florida east to west. We had several evacuee friends staying with us while we watched Charlie plow up the east coast. All the bridges to the beach areas were closed and we were told that all electricity would be turned off within an hour when Charlie suddenly made a jog and devastated the Ft. Meyers area instead of ours. It's too early to say what Ike has planned, but he is a potential troublemaker.
Josephine will probably just twirl around in the Atlantic for a while without making landfall.So, along with CSI reruns and the Republican Convention we are keeping a weather eye on the news.
In the meantime, it's life as usual with the Mister scritching, the doggies scratching and me doing what all honorable unemployed people do: what ever I please.
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