Sunday, September 05, 2004

Frances

At the time of this writing, Hurricane Frances is plowing her way into Hillsborough County towards the western part of the state. Pretty heavy wind gusts and torrential rains are gnashing the outside of our apartment. Lights started fluctuating (I hope we won't be seeing any blackouts here), and we are glued to the television waiting for any announcement if we should evacuate. Hopefully, we won't, but at this rate, I'm afraid we will be required to.

It's pretty much dark outside, at 4:09 in the afternoon, I could hear the furious howl of the wind and the loud clatter of rain. Sooner, it would probably submerge the entire county--and perhaps virtually close off the highways. We planned on going to Orlando yesterday, but since the hurricane will also plow through Orlando, we decided to stay home.

This is my baptism to the first hurricane in Florida, well, after Charley, who fortunately waylaided into another direction and spared us a probable destruction.

latest musing of Etchie at 16:24