Here Comes Charlie
As many of you are probably aware, Hurricane Charley is headed for Florida.
As many of you are probably aware, I live in Florida.
Orlando, more specifically... Orlando is usually the place all the outlanders come (and disturb all us inlanders) when hurricanes head for the coasts. But Charley has decided he wants to have a go at them anyway, and is planning on chasing them right through Orlando, thereby disturbing the inland peace. So... Charley is set to hit us anywhere from early afternoon tomorrow to sometime Saturday morning. Charlie is already a category two storm with winds over 100mph. Transformers blow at 70. That's fun.
Schools announced closings this morning for tomorrow, and daycares always do what schools do, which means I'm staying home for lack of another means of care for my wee one. I may be able to post tomorrow, but I'm not betting on it--it's likely we'll lose power for quite some time. Hurricanes get their strength from water--once they hit land, they start to dwindle for lack of more water to suck up. But Florida has almost as much lake surface area as ground, so he may get a little boost here and there on the way. But in all honesty, he'll probably be down to 50mph winds by the time he gets here... Granted, that can still take a car off the road, but it's not like we'll take the full brunt of it. They are saying, though, that some of the lower lying areas of Tampa may well be under water tomorrow.
At any rate, I just thought I'd ask y'all to pray for us. Tampa probably needs it more than we do, but complacent comments like that are usually begging to be proven wrong. A smaller storm can sometimes do more damage to an unprepared city than a bigger storm to one that has prepared.
So anyway. Please pray for us. This is probably the biggest storm set to hit Orlando in a very long time. I won't even get started on the tornadoes that can spawn off of a menace like Charley.
So until I blog again...
Love God, love others, love life--and live it LOUD! Live and leave a legacy that points straight to Him.
-Jack-
