We are starting to get the rain bands now. Pretty windy, but not terrible. Val's house is about an hour and a half from mine, and she said one of her trees has blown over, but she is safe and sound. The biggest concerns now are the tornados that the bands spawn, and the damage the wave action does to the beach (and the turtle nests). The storm should be out of our way shortly, and we are looking forward to a good Labor Day weekend.

Colleen

Just heard on the evening news that an area of Indian River got hit hard by a tornado. I don't think any of "us" live over there (east coast of Florida, south of Melbourne) but there was some serious damage done to homes there. 

Be safe everyone!

And we'll see you all soon!!

The bands of Issac have passed here. Dropped a lot of water, with some low land flooding, but nothing extreme for central Florida. Have family in Baton Rouge and they said the PTSD is kicking in full force. All are at the ready and getting things tied down, etc.

It's a huge (girthwise) storm and fairly slow moving so it's going to drop much rain. We had a tornado warning yesterday that scared the life out of us (our mobiles went off with the alert) but that was it for the major excitement.

 Weather is rainy and cloudy again today, but not so much because of Issac, rather because it's Florida summer.  

Thank you! It's a really dry storm for us. Very breezy, but no rain so far (which is fine because we are saturated). We are expected to have a surge of only 2-4 feet. That puts my dock underwater, but the house is much higher and will be fine. Now I am thinking of my friends in New Orleans (I lived there right after I got out of school), and hope the levies do their thing.

 Colleen