and Florida freepers please check in.
joe has a florida ping list. I'm up around Tampa-- we got next to nothing yesterday. NautiNurse also came out okay, and she's farther south in Palmetto.
Florida FReeper checking in. It missed the Tampa area completely. My sweetie's family is in Arcadia, where it was really bad, but they're all okay, too.
I checked in around 2 am on the other thread but I'll check in again. :-) I'm on the east coast and just did a walk around the property. Many tree limbs down. Neighbor across the street has a hugh pine tree on top of his Chevy Tahoe. Getting ready to drive out to the Port (Canaveral) to check for damaged boats.
I'm in Gainesville, in the middle of N. Central Florida and we are all OK in this area. My daughter lives in O-town(Orlando) and we have been watching WESH-TV from there, they have a good bit of damage but no reports of fatalities in that area. There are about 170,000 people there without power but hopefully they are getting things back together. The airports are closed but the theme parks are planning to be open today as usual. Some reports indicate pretty bad damage from Daytona area where they have interviewed Tampa residents who evacuated from their homes when they thought it would hit there. Looks like the Punta Gorda area is the worst though.
Prayers to anyone in that area or who has friends and relatives there.
This Florida Freeper got very lucky in the last hours with the forecast prediction and actual path. Our local weatherman did a much better job than the weather channel in guiding us Floridians through the storm. My area was predicted to have sustained winds inland of 90 miles.hr and we actually ended us with very low winds. Not as much debris in the yard as after a summer severe afternoon thunderstorm. I'm in Yippee status but am concerned for the rest of the states citizens. Heads Up, storms are forming again in the waters. We ain't out of the woods yet this season.