BEVS

OK. I am glad to read this of you .

Silly words I know. Be careful. Stay safe.

moneypenny20

My useless good wishes to everyone in its way. The damage is minimal to all.

chawkins99

The tracking forecast has now moved to the west. The current track takes it just west of Miami putting Miami on the eastern (most damaging) side of the eye. It could well be as damaging as Andrew.

uk_grenada

Heres my current noaa data, miami in the eye...

Jerseygirl

Downgraded to Cat 4.

Leslie

Thanks for letting us know! Post from the road when you can.

Leslie

Let me guess ... the Evil Bush Empire is behind it all?

FWIW You probably need to go ahead and start your own thread now and stop trying to derail this one. I won't be joining you. As the storm gets closer and closer to landfall, we're really only going to be interested in hearing from the Florida people.

Leslie

A tiny bit of good news.

Lord PercyPercy

A little more wind shear about is good news too, saying it should hit as a 4 and weaken significantly. Reckon 80-100mph winds up near Tampa, I wouldn't want to be in a mobile home, but our concrete house should be just fine.

Good luck to those driving out and those facing the landfall. Be safe.

Jerseygirl

It weakens and is downgraded several more times.

Nutmegger

Seconded! Stay safe everyone and keep us posted when you can.

Rete

Katrina did not make landfall in New Orleans. Her first landfall after Florida was in Bay St. Louis, MS and the second landfall was in Sidell, LA on the LA/MS border. Yes, she had been downgraded by the time she made landfall and while the wind damage was felt all the up the State of MS to the city of Meridian (our home in Hattiesburg 90 minutes away lost its roof and all its trees with the exception of one magnolia). My son-in-law's real property (a brick apartment building across from the beach in Gulfport) was wiped clean with only the foundation left. It was all due to the storm surge from the Gulf. NOLA's principal damages were a result of the break in the levees and the amount of rainfall.

Rete

Fourth From our thoughts to Mother Nature's ear.

Limey, seriously, give a shout and we will find you shelter here in Hattiesburg, MS if needed.

mrken30

The UK shows it doesn't care about anything that's more than 50 miles outside of London

British Virgin Islands pleads for Hurricane Irma aid as UK criticised over slow response

Trump and Branson also lost homes

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/...rma/ar-AArrNxb

uk_grenada

What cra...

The british pm promised 12 mil before the hurricane actually got there, upped it to 30 something yesterday and hundreds of servicemen with ship are en route.

Meanwhile in murica ZzzZzz

You have to remember the baronness who whinged is on the UN money sucking machine following things like this leading to exit from uk politics

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-handout.html