it hit about 65 miles south of us here in Tampa Bay, I live on the north side of the main entrence to the Bay.
we've dodged a monster which is great, but saying that it sucks to know that others got hammered by it.

Only death so far is some dumb fool who waited till the last minute and then decided to throw his family in their SUV and attempt to out run the storm. Winds blew the truck off the interstate and into a tree killing the youngest daughter, think she was 3 or 4, everyone else lived.... *sigh*...

If you want or need to stay then you stay, if not leave well in advance....

turns out it was a mini van...

eh and it wasn't a tree after all but a Delivery Truck was blown over in front or on top of them...

still...

I live in Greenville, NC we are starting to get heavy wind and storms. There predicting 60 mile an hr winds to hit here soon!

We are under a tropical starm warning here in Maryland with top winds hitting 50 or more.What is starting to worry me is this thing is projected to come across the Bay,which, depending on the tides, means massive flooding
Sad news IP indeed and I am sure there will be more stories simular to what you said. It is amazing how your area was untouched, given tha close proximity of Charley
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Saw some video on TV....things look pretty bad where it made landfall

lovesblessing reporting in here! Finally made it back online....Charley came pretty close here, but all is well and we are just fine.....with all praise and Glory to the Blood of Jesus and Father God's protection! Mercy, it sure was pretty windy!

We lost power Friday night about 9:30 or so, and the phone went out in the night.....lights came back on about 24 hrs. later, and the phone came back just this morning.....I thank God we are safe and sound. Lots of trees down around here, but the buildings are fine....except for some small things missing like tacked on ornaments, shutters etc. I'm gonna try and see how the place I work faired, as not so far away from it a Days Inn lost it's entire roof! Ought to be interesting for the next few days, weeks and months down here!

So, how is everyone else doing now that Charley has gone?