I just called my friends in Melbourne:
Frank: Hey, guys. How are you doing?
Big V: Well, we’re…
Frank: That’s great. So, could you go check on my house?
Big V: Dude, there’s like 100mph winds outside and…
Frank: 90mph. Come on. It’s not like I ever ask you for favors.
Big V: You do all the time! The police are still questioning me on some!
Frank: And you better not talk! Now…
Big V: Dude! A tree just came through the wall!
Frank: Fine. Ignore me. Whatever.
Okay, I didn’t call them. I’m going to wait until the main part passes Melbourne and call (if the cells are still up).
Hope they’re all right.
UPDATE: Can’t reach my friends by phone, but the mayor of Melbourne is on CNN right now and says there have been no reported fatalities or serious injuries and no significant flooding.
Holy crap! First!
And good wishes for Frank’s command bunker and the rest of Florida.
There is a reason I moved to central Florida, this kind of shit isnt supposed to happen in the middle of the state and now 2 in a month. I need to just blow the house up blame it on the storm and move to some other weather hell hole. And now on top of all of this Hurricane Ivan is heading right down our throats too. Argh!
Move to Maryland, we haven’t had a hurricane sence 83.
No, on second thought don’t. I think they (Hurricanes) are following around stay right there.
Good news!
Looks like Frances turned out to be a tease. She had the aire of “Oooh, I’m a bad girl. I’m going to do all sorts of nasty things to you. Tee-hee-hee.” And Florida is like, “Yeeeah, bring your bad self on over here. I haven’t been getting much action lately.”
So what happens? A ton of rain and some wind damage. We don’t get many hurricanes in KY, and I’m sure it is not fun for people living in Florida. I hope everyone made it through alright.
Your mayor (a politician) said everything’s fine? Uh oh, I would be worried if I were you. 😉 But seriously, good luck. At least you and SarahK have each other.
My biggest fear is that Floridians (retirees particularly) are now going to uproot en masse and migrate westward to Arizona. Combined with the Californians migrating eastward to avoid earthquakes, wildfires and high taxes, this state can’t handle ’em all!
Yikes!
Big V and Thirsty Pete are doing fine. Rob’s house lost a few shingles at the edge. I called them and asked them to count how many shingles I should bring from TN for my house but it didn’t sound like they were interested in venturing out in the weather.
They have power, cell phones, and cable. They have no gas and no water in the area. This would be the point where I brought up that toilets used water and they were just hoping the water got turned on before they ran out of bathrooms.
🙂
Thanks, Cheesecake.