*has never been through one of these* Ok it just got DEAD calm within the past oh ten minutes or so. There was a brief but hard downpour, just as it went calm the power flickered off for a few seconds but came right back up.
Sounds like the eye is crossing you - be prepared for the backside.
we still have barely a breeze here, as it has been all day - but it has now been raining pretty heavy for about 30 minutes.
during Isabel last year we never lost power, although it flickered a few times.......but we lost the phone, and the cable.
I was prepared for electric and cable - but not the phone. No cable meant no news and no phone meant no FR - I was a lunatic!!!
There doesn't seem to be a "backside" to this storm now.