First of all, thanks for the prayers. I am in North Central Florida and we are doing OK here, but there are reports on Orlandosentinel.com that hundreds are missing, hopefully they will be accounted for. In the Orlando area, they are saying 170,000 people are without power but I haven't seen any reports of fatalities in that area.
The worst area was Punta Gorda and they still are getting reports in from that area. Orlando was under a curfew last night until 6 am today to prevent injuries from all the damage and to prevent looting of damaged homes and businesses.
Ir regards to Bush using this opportunity, I would like to ask Conservative Boy, are you saying he should not go and try to get started on help for these disaster areas?
Sorry, that post was not very clear- the reports from the orlandosentinel were of hundreds of people missing statewide, not in Orlando area alone. Mainly I think they mean the West coast. Also,if you were planning to go there, they said this morning on the news that the Orlando theme parks plan to be open today as usual. They say they had 500 engineers monitoring the situation all night for the Disney parks. No reports of any major damage to the parks, mainly just clean-up according to the spokesperson on WESH-TV this morning.