[nwctwx]

It's worse than we've been led to believe so far.

The biggest hurricanes are always like this. Within hours we have the kooks coming out and saying it was not a real storm. Silence is never a good thing, I would like to start hearing from some places in the next few hours.

[Dog Gone]

This was and is a real storm. And it's a disaster for all those who were and are in its path.

Last night when I went to bed I expected the very worst. My eyes were tearing up.

A shift in intensity and track barely averted the worst case scenario, and I didn't see it until this morning. I would have slept better if I had stayed up another 90 minutes.

But it's plenty bad wherever she hit. I realize it's hard for news crews to get around to the affected spots right now, but this was and is a very bad storm.

I see that there are two more areas of interest between here and Africa. Hopefully they'll amount to nothing. We're going to need a rest.