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Just hoping ya'll make it through Frances ok.
I am watching and waiting for it to hit Bama next.
I am ready to move all my animals down stairs, although I won't be getting much of the hurricane here. I'll mostly be watching out for tornados and flooding.
Everyone post and let us know you and your critters are ok so we can find something else to worry about.

Scott
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Scott...i think about my internet friends a lot when weather hits hard ....billy

crap, now they have Ivan to worry about now to. God be with the Floridians.

Thanks everyone for your concern from a new floridian. I'm in Brandon, just outide of tampa, only been here 2 months now. Huricanne Charlie was supposed to hit us directly but missed and we barely got anything up here. However, Frances has done some good damage to our apartment building. One outside wall is leaking directly through the center and all of our bedroom carpet is flooded. Our ouside patio door frame was leaking and running like a facet, we filled 3 buckets (5 gallon) atleast half way.

We did not get it bad at all compared to others but we will still have a lot of cleaning up to do. We also have to go and check out our new home that is under constuction and that is due to be completed early October....

We spent roughly 14 hours in hurricane force winds , six of those in the southern eyewall of the storm . The northern Palm beach county and Martin county area was hit pretty bad but we personally managed to come through it with very little damage and all of the animals are ok (no structural damage to the house - minor fence damage , a little flooding from an overflown cannal that was blocked during the storm , one broken window , and a few of the light fixutres around the house were smashed -many downed trees - we were blessed ) . The Loxahatchee area had almost 20 inches of rain dropped on it during the storm .

A lot of Floridians were not so lucky and many may not have power for another two weeks or more.

Huchison Island (St.Lucie area a little north of us )is full of mobile home parks in which as many as 40 people were refusing to heed the mandatory warnings issued and evacuate .(this island has never been directly hit by a hurricane in recorded history and was directly in the path of the eye )The National Guard was out there late last night and reported that roughly 90% of the mobile homes on the island were totally destroyed . Here is to hoping that many evacuated at the very last minute or we are going to have a very high death toll for this storm .

All in all Florida got lucky as the storm stalled out over Grand Bahama and was being hit by a mass of dry air that helped to drop the storm from a catagory 4 to a catagory 2 . Had we spent 14 hours in catagory 4 hurricane force winds I am not so sure that I would still have a house that was intact.

I hope everyone and their animals faired at least as well as we did .

Some pics http://www.bluetegu.com/frances/
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Stella St.Pierre
www.bluetegu.com

Man i feel bad for the guy in tampa, it appears ivan will come straight at tampa(see link here: http://www.hwn.org/atlantic/nhcww4.html )

As for me im in jacksonville, which isnt looking to great either, im not sure what im gonna do with my animals, probably take them to a friends house with a generator and hope for the best.

good luck to everyone else in FL and surrounding areas
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