This stupid storm won't leave. The center made it back into the Gulf of Mexico late Sunday evening, and it was only in the early morning hours on Monday that we started getting the worst of the weather, a full 24 hours after it made landfall on the east coast. We're STILL under a tropical storm warning, and the center is up somewhere near the panhandle now. It looks like it's clearing up here, but you never know. It's getting really old. Spent most of yesterday either watching the storm reports or watching movies, watched Kill Bill Vol. 2 and Rushmore, and I'm just sick of TV. I might be going to work this evening, I haven't checked back with the emergency hotline to see whether they decided to open up at 2 PM or not, I'll have to do that soon. We still haven't heard anything from my aunt and uncle in Palm Bay, and I don't know when they'll be able to call out to let anybody know how they're doing.
Oh yeah, and we're already watching hurricane Ivan, which went from a tropical storm to a category 4 hurricane in 18 hours yesterday (unprecedented), and which is now tracked to head right toward Florida. I know that they said that for most of the population expansion for Florida, we were in a lull in the hurricane cycle, and are going into a more intensified next few decades, but man, two hurricanes in less than a month, and another one on the way. We hadn't had two in the same season for more than a century, much less two in the same month.
Posted by kathryn at Septiembre 6, 2004 12:35 PM | TrackBack