CHARLEY BECOMES A (CATEGORY 4 Now!!) HURRICANE (18 ft. storm surge)

NHC ^ | 08-13-2004 | Forecaster Lawrence

[Damocles]

The guy's cuckoo...

[gopwinsin04]

Boca Grande looking to take the hit now..

[hawkaw]

Storm at last moment turning to the north and threathening another county

[ican'tbelieveit]

Now they are saying it may skirt sanibel island.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

I am in Longwood also (Wekiva).

Did you just get what we got?

In a matter of a few soconds, we went from very calm to strong wind and rain. We lost our satellite signal.

[nwctwx]

It's definately moving north right now.

[mhking]

Check the radar loop in post #3 - the eye has tracked more to the north over the last few frames.

Yeah - I see it. It still looks to hit Captiva and north Pine Island...

WBBH/WSVN: Tornado Warning for DeSoto County...

[FeliciaCat]

Oh shoot...it was HIS HOUSE that a huge chunk flew off of..cripes.

[jpsb]

Ft Meyers getting 60+, now that makes much more sense. This might be a bad one.

[Ichneumon]

In more ways than one... They just had a call from someone who claimed to be on the scene, and described the hurricane as, "a blast of wind from Howard Stern's a**..." TWC broke off the call and went to a commercial.

Oops, my mistake, that was CNN, not TWC.

[ovrtaxt]

Read the New Testament and get back to me. ;)

[lelio]

A prophetic friend of mine about two months ago said that God was going to send a great rain on Disney World here because of their 'gay days'.

Hrm, predicting a "great rain" for Florida is about as hard as winning a free small french fry at McDonald's.

Now if he would of "predicted" God punishing New Jersey for having a gay governor before it was announced I would be amazed.

[Damocles]

Looking at landfall further north...this storm is wildly unpredictable...

[ApesForEvolution]

Sanibel Island JUST missed when storm turns N, heading NNE up to Charlotte Harbor...Tornado warning in Desoto County.

[gopwinsin04]

He goes 'oh, about a 200ft section of a house just blew off..' like nothing happened!

[mhking]

DId you hear him: this large structural part of my house just blew off?

"Duh....my roof just blew off..." [g]

[hawkaw]

Look out Tampa

[jayef]

Trust me, they do. They relay that message everytime.

[spectre]

Howard Stern groupie, it figures.

sw

[agrace]

Going by Yahoo maps, Seffner is east of Tampa, just north of where my bro-in-law is. He's in Riverview. Homosassa seems to be much further north and looks like no worries there.