August 13, 2004
Blogging Charley
Updated - DOH! I can't believe I've been misspelling the name of the hurricane...
Still waiting for the hurricane...
Very quiet streets. Lotsa people boarding up - I just finished a 4 hour marathon of cutting and drilling.
Businesses and schools are all closed. Many people in close by neighborhoods have been told to evacuate. People are not being forced from their homes, but they’re on their own if they’re in an evacuation zone. See the links for all the little details.
Expecting the wind to pick up soon - right now it’s very calm, and cloudy.
The latest says that the storm will pass by to our West, which will mean a huge storm surge - lots of flooding to go along with 100 plus MPH winds.
Obviously, my electricity is still on, but TECO still plans to cut power at some point to downtown and other South Tampa locales. Being North of downtown, I’m hoping to be spared the planned outage, but I expect to be without power at some point, perhaps for a long time.
I cooked all the fresh food that I could last night - we’ll be feasting on roast pork and chicken and have plenty of canned stuff to see us through.
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Posted by Norwood at August 13, 2004 11:30 AM