Sunday, September 26, 2004

Jeanne Defies Predicted Path

When we went to bed last night, Jeanne's track had her coming through Polk County again (Polk was hit by both Charley and Frances) and then exiting north of us in the Citrus County area. When we got up, they were saying we're going to take a pretty direct hit. But Jeanne should be a strong tropical storm or a weak category one hurricane by the time she gets here - they're saying about 2pm. The wind outside is considerable - far worse than it was in Frances and Jeanne is still miles away. I'm going to try to get some pictures (from inside the house) once it gets lighter outside.

We're already living without hot water, though our power is still on. Our hot water heater decided that a hurricane was a fine time to disgorge its contents onto the garage floor and it did just that late last night. Since we're probably going to lose power within the next four hours, I suppose it doesn't really matter. But these fixtures seem to have a penchant for breaking just when hurricanes are arriving.

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