This morning, Floridians were advised to prepare for our fourth hurricane of the season.
After dancing little circles in the Atlantic while Haiti tries to recover from her visit, Jeanne is a hurricane again. At last count, over a thousand people are dead in Haiti, but that number could double. The Haitian government says the country will bury its dead in mass graves. Our hearts and minds go out to the Haitian people as I write this. See Jeanne's Effect on Haiti.
Jeanne did a U-turn after spinning seemingly aimlessly out in the Atlantic for a few days. The National Hurricane Center is now predicting a Florida landfall as early as this weekend. Though she's poised to hit the east coast, our storm shutters will be back on the windows come Saturday and we're preparing to again take in houseguests (refugees) from low-lying Cortez and Anna Maria Island. Unless Jeanne decides to meander due west and then turns north and wanders into the Gulf (after what we've seen this season, we don't rule out any possibility) , we will not be ordered to evacuate, though I'm sure the county will order voluntary evacuations for our area even if the storm makes landfall on the other coast.
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