We know what Hanna (we got some good rain that we needed this morning from her) is going to do, travel up the east coast as a tropical storm but right now all eyes are on Ike, including my own (I live in the greater Fort Lauderdale area). People are comparing Ike to Andrew, [...]

It seems that Hanna is going to skip past us in Florida and now make her way up the coast to North Carolina or even further north.
Now the one to watch is Ike. He is expected to get big over the next few days and the extended track puts south Florida right in the [...]

Right now Ike seems very far away but it seems that is is going to be consistent and gradually strengthen during his trip over the Atlantic.

Fay hung out for a day and a half for us here near Ft Lauderdale, nothing serious with damage but I think she was a good wake up call for us.  She tested systems, infrastructure, and cleaned out a lot of weaker brush. My company noticed a few holes in our emergency response team plans [...]

From the looks of the Key West radar she is past Cuba and is heading stright north which means she could hit further east than anticipated (well, landfall further south).  The radar shows that the Keys now are getting hit wiht some storms and there is a very large cluster of storms that will soon [...]

Wow, hurricane season hasn’t even started yet and we have TS Arthur!

I guess mother nature just couldn’t wait?

Welcome to the new community.  I’ve decided since we’re only a day away from the 2008 hurricane season I’ve decided to revamp the site with a new blog, an RSS fed forum, and of course, the pictures.
I hope this year is a quiet year when it comes to storms, but we’ve had a reprieve for [...]