[PJ-Comix]

ISABEL IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 9 MPH

This is the part that is frightening. I'm in South Florida and Isabel seems to be headed STRAIGHT at us. Wasn't the last hurricane to be a Category 5, Hurricane Floyd? Floyd was headed straight at us but at the last moment a high pressure front veered it sharply north.

[dirtboy]

Floyd never made it quite to Cat 5. But it more than made up for it in the rainfall department.

[John H K]

Floyd peaked as a strong Category 4. Floyd was a "wider" storm however, than Isabel.

Floyd was also somewhat south of Isabel at the same distance east of Florida. Also, Floyd was a tropical storm at the same distance east of Florida Isabel is now.

Even if Isabel continued due west (and that seems somewhat unlikely) it would take 7 days to reach Florida.

[LBelle]

LBelle is pregnant with first child in Islamorada, Florida Keys and doesn't want to evacuate. Say prayers......

[dirtboy]

Mitch was the last Cat 5 in 1998. And, like Floyd, it killed with rain, not wind - the worst of its winds abated as it stalled just offshore from Central America. But that slow movement allowed several feet of rain to fall and kill nearly 10,000 people.

[oceanview]

I think it will go north of you, just my opinion.

[My Favorite Headache]

I am in South Florida as well...but this thing aint comin anywhere near us...count on it PJ.

[Vinnie]

I'm in South Florida and Isabel seems to be headed STRAIGHT at us

It would have to track almost due West to hit S. Fla.
Relax, this one is going North of you, toward ME!!

( and when I moved to NC from S. Fla. I thought my hurricane worries were over, boy was that a mistake)