I was living in Naples at the time...any other time and the storm would have been top news...to me it was just another rainy 2 days.
My daughter, believe it or not, was born on 9/11 ... five hours before the attacks. Then, out of nowhere, this tropical storm shows up ... by that Friday morning, I was camped out in an interior bathroom riding out the storm with my wife, our then-3-year-old son and our newborn. They were all troupers.