It's easy to forget that hurricanes that make landfall often have devistating effects long after the sky has cleared at the beaches and long after the storm is no longer officially a hurricane.
Some of the rain amounts I've heard are just unbelievable. More than half of what we get here (and we're not a dry climate) in an entire year on average. Hurricanes that have moved inland are usually dropping tornadoes left and right as well, which on a small scale can be equally or more devastating than the hurricane itself was when it made landfall.
My thoughts are with everyone in the SE and the Carribean. I have a sister in Orlando and they got pounded pretty hard with Charley. Frances was much kinder to them....I do hope Ivan misses them completely...and you too.
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