Our thoughts are with you all!! Please know that I for one will be praying for all our Florida and S.E. US Pixies to ride this storm out with minimal or no damage and, so very hopefully, minimal loss of life! Thank you PF for all the work you have put into the map to let us know where all our friends are and I do hope, again, you all ride it out OK!

Good Morning :) I made it through the night. We have a very long day ahead of us. The worst for Central Florida is still on the way. But so far I have power and my internet. :)

Keep up the prayers everyone. I will check in for as long as I am able to.

TinglingTess,

To you and all the Floridian Pixies - hang in there!

Keep your heads down and your blood alcohol levels up.

Lil, when you read this, Marian and I have a bottle of mudslide in the fridge to celebrate

all our pixies friends safety.

I stayed up till 5am listening to the trees blowing. I love it as long as we don't lose power and I have to hear the women in my family bitch. :rolleyes: :D

The sun is out and it looks oddly like just another day....I'd have no idea what was to come if it were not for seeing the trees swaying. We never have breezes in early September. It's coming, I can feel it now.

well gettign about 40mph gusts
watching some boats being swung around here and there
some tree damage .......... was with out power for about 5 hours already ............ a roof is blown off a drs office in town and several other homes with roofs damaged ........... and some trees down across the road and agaist houses .......... and the worst yet to come ............
this is a slow moveing storm which sucks cause you want to get on with your life and cant till its gone
and I am stuck at home now till atleast tues............... work finnally closed ........... and didnt tell no one except management so every one was standing outside of work in Tampa .waiting to get in ........... with winds going crazy pouring rains and no one showed to unlock the doors .......... so someone is going to hear about it ...... but they were out there for atleast 2 hrs then desided to go home ........ no calls to tell them we were supposed to be closed ........... (such a lovely place to work huh) ........... anyways before i loose power again ...... winds are picking up here ............. this is whitetiger reporting to you live from the beach on the west coast ........ everyone stay safe PLEASE

Like Lilith said up there......the weather is never this beautiful and bearable unless a storm is coming. I heard last night it should hit my area around Monday afternoon, but not as bad as it is right now.

I am thinking of you guys!

Sitting here looking out the window at the trees whipping, huge gust come suddenly and then stop. Its raining hard, blowing in every direction. The worst will be 2pm our time. We are very lucky to still have our power.

Please keep praying that Tess doesn't lose power. That is what scares me the most. :D

pics from the storm
 

the part of the antenna in the first pic almost speared me ......
i will send as many pics as i can
till i have no more power

more pics

even more
these are nothing yet but my help you compair as the storm worsens

Hoping and praying everyone is safe. ...Glad ya did'nt get speared whitetiger! ......Take care all!!!

just a lot of winds and rainfall here in Jacksonville. A very gloomy, very windy day ahead. The rain is pounding on my windows.
I think I slept harder last night than I have in a long time, I think it was the wind and rain that did it, nothing like a storn to make you sleep hard.
I have been watching the news and so far we are doing ok here.
This storm is moving too slow and stalling too much, it is going to cause more damage this way :-(

Great Job, PF!!! as you work your way up the east coast, ya can stick me on the nc map when ya get to it.....love the way your mind works, hun.


Hang on tight pixies....you're all in my thoughts and prayers..... :grope: