The Big One

Blogging from South Florida will likely be on a freeze for the next three to five days. Hurricane Ivan, stronger than either Charley or Frances, is now forecast to hit us pretty much dead-on. The long-term forecasts have a big margin of error, but this is still awfully scary.



One of my coworkers told me a bone-chilling story today about how she was hit by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 - it destroyed the home she had bought three weeks earlier. So we're pretty petrified.

5 PM UPDATE

It looks a tiny bit better this afternoon, at least for Miami. We're still bracing ourselves for a wallop, but there's a glimmer of hope.



Notice the black dots are a little further west. But those black dots are, at best, educated guesses until a day or two before it hits. Also, those dots are just the eye of the storm - the bad weather extends 100 miles or more from that center.

So we wait...