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Fran had 80 MPH winds but some areas had tornadic winds (near 200 MPH). It hit at 9 PM and "howled" all night - did not fly through - as it appears Charley has done. All night I prayed - Lord, Jesus!!!! please spare us! And He did...and all those in my family. We all lost trees but no one had damaged homes. This time - well - this is just too eerie.

But thousands of homes were split in two by the trees down in Fran. The damage took 2 years to clean up. Then Floyd hit. Similar but not as bad.

When I walked around my dad's neighborhood it looked like an atomic blast had struck. I was in shock. No power for about 2 weeks for him. (Powerlines not buried like ours are). It was God's mercy that spared his home and those of my siblings.

But this time - it is just too eerie.

Unless God has mercy again and pushes Charley out to sea!!! Let's pray for that!

If Charley brings 50-60 MPH winds to our area - major tree damage will occur and that means major home damage will occur. If Charley brings 80 MPH winds to our area - it will be devastating again - just like Fran.

And Floyd's winds were only 40 -45 MPH if I remember right and we still lost a big pine tree....so even winds that low will wreak some havoc.

I may evacuate....esp if the winds "howl" like they did before - don't think I can endure that again!

Ah yes, I remember that LONG night well too. Of course I was the only one in my family awake all night listening to the transformers blowing and trees falling all night long. I don't EVER want to go through anything like that again.

We were lucky, we ended up with a smallish tree on our garage and several down in the back yard but no significant damage. We felt very fortunate after driving through town, the areas that we could even get through, and seeing rows of houses, every single one with trees on them.

We were at Crabtree tonight when the storm came through and they kept announcing on the PA system and the security guards were going to every store telling customers if they were parked on the lower parking deck level that they needed to go move their cars immediately because the parking deck was flooding. Can't imagine Crabtree Creek handling much more water tomorrow.

MKM