It's now almost 5am in Orlando. The howl of the wind woke me at 4 o'clock. Main body of the storm has not reached us yet but is very close to our southern boundries. The power is flickering and I expect I may be offline soon. Going to be a bad day for sure. Limbs of the liveoak in the front yard are flailing like a giant grotesque creature in death throws. Don't know too much about those south of us though over 100,000 are already without power and the company that services that area has already issued a statement saying they may be without electricity for as much as 3 weeks. Not much else to do except as we say down here, "hunker down and ride it out." Maybe Rick and I can start a hurricane blog after this is over.............. Mike Orlando