[Howlin]

See 2776; coming at your place and/or us!

I was just talking to a friend of mine who has a place in Orlando AND Fort Macon. Double shot!

[NautiNurse]

1500 active National Guard, and 5000 reserves called up to respond to state of emergency in Florida. 400 state law enforcement too. In Charlotte Co., the police dept is non-functional, fire departments--50% of them destroyed.

[wimpycat]

It's dead calm here at the moment, but that radar loop indicates the winds will start picking up very shortly, and I'm south of you. I got up at 7:00 this morning and started in on the laundry, and my last load is in the dryer. Floors are vacuumed, dishes are washed. If the power goes out, everything I need electricity for is done. I think our area's biggest concern will be trees coming down because of the wet ground, and landing on power lines.

[NCjim]

Thanks, it looks like as of 2:00 the warning at the coast was downgraded to tropical storm warning, and now from the radar it looks like both Raleigh and the coast are out of the water, literally!

This has been a busy weekend so far as my daughter is also moving into NCSU today... the hurricane was not in the original plans which were to be hectic without it.

I will sleep well tonight!!!