Hurricane Frances

[esprit]

Due to slow speed, latest prediction is that the eye will not be over here until about this time tomorrow. Unless it speeds up. The waiting is agonising. Outer winds and rain already hitting the east coast thogh, gusts of 67 moh reported at Cape Canaveral. They are saying 1 to 1.5 ins of rain an hour and it will take a long time to cross. And theres me without any wellies.

[Newhomebuyer]

Hey Julie,
My husband laughed at me when I got worried about us not having any wellies with us.
The only place on the 192 in this area (Marker 4-6)which has opened this morning is Ponderosa. It was packed but will close at 11-30am. Winn Dixie on Formosa Plaza Boulevard will close in half an hour (ie 12 noon). Nowhere has plans to open tomorrow but all say they 'hope' to open on Monday.
Seminole, are you over at Oak Island? The winds are beginning to reach verya slightly now.
Angela

[zerotone]

Hi

We are at our villa on Eagle Pointe just off Poinciana. 5 mins ago had strong winds and driving rain, which has now stopped again. Moved all pool furniture and car into garage. We are due to leave on Monday pm. If any owners on Eagle Pointe or nearby communities would like us to check around the outside of their properties after 'Frances'please DM me with your address (please do this sooner rather than later in case of power failures). Good luck to everyone else out here.

Jane

[esprit]

Sherrif of Osceola county on TV, curfew will stay in place until the danger is past and that includes afterwards as there could be power lines down in the water. The early curfew is to stop looting but also because of the danger of tournados in the forward winds.
Err you werent supposed to be out this morning, Newhomebuyer or at least not in a car. I am presuming all the people in the Ponderosa walked there from nearby hotels?

[Newhomebuyer]

Hi Julie,
As we understood from Wesh we were okay to be out for a short time after dawn until 11-30am. We are safely battoned down now and don't intend to be out again until we get the "all clear" Take care everyone. Will keep in touch when able to do so. As we understand it there is already some tornadic behaviour out there so don't know how long we will be able to stay on line.
Angela

Frances is 80 miles of the coast of Palm Beach at the moment, Listening in to baynews9.com.................

Lucy

[SheilaF]

Hi Everyone

Chrizzy100 - not sure if we are in a flood area, we are renters on Crescent Lakes does anyone know if that is a bad area? We have towels etc by the windows already because Charley brought us a lot of rain.

Julie, it is so true, the waiting is the worst, we have the safe room kitted out etc but its still hours away.........

Thanks to both of you and everyone for your support, we will keep in touch as long as we can....

SheilaF

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

Crescent Lakes is not in a flood area according to my house documents.
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by SheilaF
Hi Everyone

Chrizzy100 - not sure if we are in a flood area, we are renters on Crescent Lakes does anyone know if that is a bad area? We have towels etc by the windows already because Charley brought us a lot of rain.

Julie, it is so true, the waiting is the worst, we have the safe room kitted out etc but its still hours away.........

Thanks to both of you and everyone for your support, we will keep in touch as long as we can....

SheilaF



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[jolliffee]

People in the UK that are intrested in live feeds :-

SKY users can get FOX news Cnannel 531 that are broadcasting all day mainly on the Florida Frances hurricane situation.

Broad band users:
Channel 9 Orlando are offering live feed on Frances
www.wftv.com/index.html and then select live coverage. Note: goes blank on ad breaks.

Bay 9 News feeds sound
http://www.baynews9.com/BN9_Work.html

You can now see the eye of the storm on the live Melbourne Super Doppler at:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/latest.../si.kmlb.shtml

[SheilaF]

Thanks for that, at least thats good news.......... appreciated



SheilaF