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Glad y'all are OK. Igh! And don't remind me of Rita. I had relatives who didn't make it out of Houston due to the traffic jam---I was scared half to death until it was certain Rita wasn't hitting there.

Glad El Ché was a bust. Hope the rest of the state, especially here in the Tampa Bay region, are similarly spared. We are suppose to get some rain and some wind, nothing too serious.

Rita was a real bitch once she hit Texas, running her course as a hurricane as far as 150 miles inland, hitting the town where I used to live particualy hard. There was damage, and there were thousands of evacuees from the Texas and Louisiana coasts. I was worried sick about my friends. Hope we see nothing like that this year.

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Trade you one of your hurricanes for two of our earthquakes...

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm

Good thing about earthquakes; they are over quick and although rip to pieces, your stuff isn't blown into the next county.
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So here's the next poll question: how many are going to leave up some of the shutters until November 1? As my mom would say.."por si las moscas?"

Well .... ANSWERED PRAYERS: sure enough, Ernie Che's still a coward.

I'm with Deacon. Give me the storms, I don't like it when the ground shakes unexpectedly.

Mira yo voy a dejar los shutters. We freakin' put it up for this? A goddamned Viento Platanero? Geez it's 5:20am (Yeah I know, wtf am I still doing up?), and nothing, not even those cool howls the wind makes. just some rain.. that's it.

OK, how lame was that? My power never even went out once, and most of the time it'll go during the weakest thunderstorm. Ah, but the courts are closed so I get three days off without burning annual leave: thank you, Ernesto! :-)

A true non-event. I see now that it tracked farther east; no wonder we got nuthin' but a little rain here. Well, hooray for storms that fizzle!

Will Castro hype the bejesus out of it just like he did with the real ernesto.

"It was the biggest most powerful hurricane ever, and Cuba survived because we are communists. Lets build a stupid monument"

Caballero, let's not be malagradecidos .... ok, so it was overblown (no pun intended) and it turned out to be a dud. Over-preparedness, over-gassing, et al., it's still better than, oh, Charlie or Rita or Andrew. Too many folks still have those blue tarps you can see when you approach the airport runways. Pobrecitos, my best wishes to you.

Deacon were you in the 94 quake?

As evil as it seems I want a cat 5 hurricane. Not for Miami, for Cuba. And I want to be called "The Castro Bros. killer." Here's to wishful thinking

***Ziva:

Yep... my place is about 5 miles from the epicenter of the '94 Northridge quake.
Shook the poop out of it.

Like I said, although stuff gets shaken, it's still in your property, not blown half way accross the county. 2 minutes and it's over.

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Deacon, I agree, I don't mind the quakes, it's tornadoes that scare me.

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Ziva: As long as you don't live on a trailer you have nothing to fear from a tornado

Do you know what's the similarity between a red neck divorce and a tornado?? --Someone's gonna lose a trailer.

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Deacon: tornadoes are no laughing matter and merit much respect. MOst of the damage we had from Hurricane Andrew was from spawned tornados.

Also, you can ask my assistant who is from Texas and she'll tell you how scary those big twisters are, when you have minutes to run into a storm shelter.

At least with a hurricane you can prepare.

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