Ernesto is a wimp..

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Good news - Ernesto turned out to be a wimp. Mild tropical storm and nothing

more.

I'm sitting out on the patio, and it is raining and we have some breeze. We

shouldn't get

more than 45-50 mph winds top.

This is GREAT.

>

> thanks Patty

>

> I know - it is extremely nerve wracking - what is worse is is for years we

> have had a number of very close calls but not any bad direct hits - knock on

> wood, which makes me think this is scary as it seems more and more against the

> odds that we ill keep getting passed over....

> a few years back we got nipped pretty good w, 2 back 2 back.... they were

> not above cat 2's I don't think but we did have some damage to our roof,

etc...

> nothing like others have had and I am so grateful.... I just can't help but

> think eventually we will be next and that is so scary.... especially since

> they change around so much and you never know - they say one thing then 4

hours

> later you turn on the news and it is headed another direction... as on last

> nite it was headed to the east coast... now it looks to hit much farther

> towards the west coast of Florida - of course I don't wish it to hit anywhere

-

> just to go out and go disappear but luckily this doesn't look too strong -

just

> a ton of bad weather... I was on Cocoa beach during a cat 2 during a direct

> hit w/ my parents when I was in my late teens... that was really scary but we

> made it... we were on the water and it was supposed to go elsewhere - we

> stayed at the beach all day and by the time we got back it had changed

courses -

> we turned on the TV later and realized it was headed for us and we had been

> under a mandatory evacuation for several hours... we were on vacation and had

> no idea until it was almost too late - we decided to wait it out which was a

> terrible idea - it was much worse than we thought and we were all

> terrified.... anyways - lesson learned and we were not hurt... I can not

imagine how

> horrible it would be to be in a storm worse than that.... I feel so badly for

> those people last year in Katrina- I can not even begin to imagine those

> horrors...

> We bought a generator today as we get sooo tired of waiting out the power

> outages.... those really stink w/ a small child... he just doesn't understand

> going potty in the dark or not being able to listen to his radio, etc... he

> gets bored...

>

> Good luck to the girls south and east of me... hopefully I will see you all

> back here Thursday!!!

>

> love to all

>

> shari

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