UPDATE: On the state’s Atlantic coast, 10 Navy ships from Mayport Naval
Station near Jacksonville were sent out to sea, the Navy said
Friday. At Cape Canaveral, traffic was bumper-to-bumper at noon as
Kennedy Space Center employees left work early. All but a skeleton
crew of 200 of the center’s nearly 13,000-person work force was
sent home, or told to stay home, and the space shuttle hangars and
the massive Vehicle Assembly Building were sealed tight.
Also ... Two traffic deaths were reported during the storm in
Florida. One of these involved a woman who was driving south on Interstate 75 at 4 p.m., lost control of her car and crashed into a tree near the Bee Ridge Road exit in Sarasota.
This storm is wild. These storms usually start to disorganize over land - this one doesn't seem to be.