Relief

Pretty Colors!

There is a collective sigh of relief here in the Tampa Bay area and the folks to the south are getting ready to feel the brunt of Charley.

Nice suspenders!

I felt bad for the local CBS affiliate as they had to evacuate their studios which are located in an evacuation zone.  They ended up gathered around a plasma screen pointing at the screen while trying to report on the storm.

Now the threat for us is hurricane spawned tornados and potential heavy rains.  The image on the left is an area where there was a radar identified tornado.  The image on the right is a radar measure of the wind speeds near the eye.  The next area they measured came in at 127+ mph.  It is expected to make land fall very near Palm Island the barrier island resort area where we used to take vacations.