Katrina hits us

Here I thought I would be able to post as Katrina headed towards our
area.

After work we headed home to find no power. A squall line came through
around 4:30pm and knocked it out. We are one of about 200,000 without
power in Broward. There are about 54,000 in Palm Beach where we work.

At this moment the wind is howling outside and occasionally you can hear
something hit the shutters. Areas south of us are getting it even worse
acording to radio reports. Lines down, windows being blown out and so
far two fatalities.

Coming home there were numerous branches down along with a few trees
from Boca to Deerfield. Now, almost four hours later, it is no doubt
worse. Tomorrow will be interesting to see what really happened.

Though the eye did go to the south of our area it did go over the
National Hurricane Center.

Tomorrow after work and clean up I will post how things ended up.

Stay safe,
Howard
--howpomp