How many Florida residents do we have here? Besides Tiger, of course. Who's riding out the bad weather? I had some family visiting there and they got home ahead of the storm. Let's all send up prayers for protection and safety. And the wildfires are really challenging the US, too.

I agree!  Prayers to all of those in harm's way.  A tornado went through my daughter's neighborhood in Richmond this afternoon.  She is fine and I don't think anyone was hurt but lots of damage and 145,000 without power!

I live in Central FL (The Villages)......it's been a nasty couple of days!!  A couple of tornadoes Sunday and today.  Isolated....but no fun for those who homes were damaged.  So far I've only heard of one fatality in Tampa which was hit by a tornado Sunday night. 

The rains have been incredible......15 in. in this area and some areas with higher totals.  The whole problem has been the storm stalled off Tampa Bay and just threw to shore rainband after rainband. 

I heard of a missing swimmer in Orange Beach, Alabama.  The news report showed lifeguards looking for the swimmer.....the waves were huge!!  I spent time in Orange Beach last year and the waves are normally only a foot or two high. 

The power of nature.....!!

Yes, the fires out west are horrible.  I've heard that 8 in Colorado may have been arsen..... :-((

Glad your daughter, jane is okay.  You don't often think of tornadoes in Richmond .....

 

Hope you are well, too!!! I have friends in Florida who have kept me sort of up to date on the weather in and around Tampa and the Pensacola area.  Rain Rain and more Rain!!!

Arson!  Are you kidding me??????

I want everyone in it's path to be safe...

Having lived in Florida for 10 years, I have experienced many storms....both Tropical (as is Debbie) and Hurricane strength...I lived on the West Coast in Sarasota for 7 years and the storms were much worse there because it is right on the Gulf Coast (1 hour south of Tampa).  In Orlando which is the central part of Florida and landlocked, the storms were much less severe...usually got the outer bands.  When a storm such as Debbie kind of "stops" and just hangs there the amount of rain is incredible.  Saw some film on TV tonight about flooded areas and they will be worse by tomorrow.  Prayers are with everyone who is being affected by the storm ....and, of course, the Tornadoes only add to the havoc.  Ironically, the Hurricane that caused the most damage to any home we have owned in the last 15 years happened right here in New York last fall....in all the storms in Florida neither the home in Sarasota or the home in Orlando were ever damaged.

My grandma lived on the west coast of Florida and experienced some of those storms. The problem is the gulf is considerably warmer than the Atlantic and the storms grow.

More weather news: in my area, we have gone almost 25 days without any measurable rainfall and a lot of 95 degrees days with high humidity. If this keeps up, they will place bans on all fireworks for the 4th. Not as dangerous as a hurricane unless these genius people around here keep flicking cigarette buds out into the dead and dry grass.

We're going to have to do a rain dance for you guys!!!!  There are some horrendous fires going on out west...   The weather has been so extraordinary for the past couple of years...You are not allowed to own fireworks privately here where I live....but of course every town has their town idiot who has to break the law....there is only supposed to be fireworks where there is strict supervision...like there will be a carnival nearby where they will have fireworks around 10 but there will be professional people doing it and firemen there.   I've seen a couple of bad injuries with children whose parents thought they knew better than the law and allowed fireworks in their backyards....I'm very opposed to private individuals using them...the most we have ever let our grandchildren have are the sparklers and they have to be on the driveway which has been watered down. 

Irene was horrendous......lots of devastation in Vermont, my home state.  I moved here to FL just a month or so after Irene.

 

Hoping sleep is all we are going to lose. Several waterspouts visible from the window yesterday. This all while the Wyoming cabin is about 30 miles from a 100-acre blaze. But both Colorado and Florida's Panhandle have it worse.