Actually, Charley's a class 2.
We're in Central Florida.. Charley's definitely gonna hit here. We've been watching the weather channel alot. My grandparents went out to stock up on food and stuff just in case we're out of power or water for an extended period of time. We're not expecting to have to evacuate, but it could happen, as the news has now suggested possible 110 mph wind in some areas. I don't look forward to hurricanes, but I'm one of those people who get some sort of slight hint of excitement from stuff like this, so I was actually kind of disappointed to hear that we won't be getting the center of the storm O_O Okay, enough of my wretched mind..
My mom said that she might be coming over here to stay with us tomorrow if the storm hits as hard as they think it will.
pond boy, Floyd was that bad? Because I remember it.. I remember that is was almost twice the size of the state, and we boarded up the house and evacuated.. but when we got up near the pandhandle, which is half the state away from Titusville, we were trying to sleep in a store parking lot (which was so impossible it wasn't even funny) and we heard on the radio that our part of the storm weakened and was only harboring maybe 40-60 mph winds, which is nothing for a hurricane, so we drove.. all... the way... back... and we got home about 1 AM. The wind was massive and the rain hurt your skin it blew so hard, but we got into the house and went to bed. I'm not even going to get into the mysterious booming noise I heard that night, which to this day has not been explained. Anyhoo, is wasn't too bad for us.. a tree branch off the cherry tree by the house and wholllllle lotta sticks and leves laying around (looked like genuine springtime autumn chaos!). Irene did more damage. Broke off two branches.
Schloaty, it rained SO bad the past couple of days, and I had my rain-catching doohinkey (gallon jug with the top 3rd cut off.. SOMEBODY SEND ME A BUCKET! PLEASE!!), and got almost four inches of rain, and then I caught a bunch more during the short, fast, windy, rainy outburst earlier today. Don't know how much... gotta go get it.. hmm.. anyhoo, it's been raining every day for a really long time, and really hard, too, which means the ground is massively saturated, therefore the rain and wind from Charley might fall some oak trees, since they have very shallow roots, plus the ground is like wet sponge now. *sigh* And we have two big oaks in the back. Anyhoo, gotta put my babies in the garage.. might wanna slip the cover over the greenhouse too....
EDIT: By the way, yesterday I went with my grandparents to go gas up the car last night at around 7 or so, when it was really getting black out with clouds, but not raining yet.. only THE most bizarre thunder I've ever heard in my entire life, honestly. We had only gone about 20 seconds down the road and guess what we saw immediately southwest of us. A genuine tornado funnel forming itself downwards rapidly from the genuine tornado clouds. Heck, we get tornado clouds and sightings almost every day this time of year, but this is the first time I'd ever actually seen one right in front of me. It was going east, which was good news, since our house was north of it, up the road, and there's very little chance a tornado would last long enough to reach where the house was before disappating. Anyhoo, that scared the crap out of me. We turned around and went back to the house. Today they went out again, while I stayed home, and when they came back, they said it must've touched down shortly after we saw it form, and about at the same place, because just ahead of where we turned around, in a heavily "treed" area with a few houses, even closer to the Interstate than we are, there was a whole lotta knocked-down trees and junk. The houses weren't hit, though. My grandfather said he saw on the news last night that some dude that was there at the time of the tornado had a camera and he filmed it and the news played it.
Well, there's an adrenaline rush to last a week. Next time I see a tornado, I gotta drink a can of Red Bull.. *clears throat*..
Red Bull gives you wiiings.