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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

You'll be without power same as I will be. The question is how long. Looks like the latest timing for the storm puts it straight east of Daytona at sunrise tomorrow. Worst wind should happen between midnight tonight and noon tomorrow--a good 12 hours of 100 mph winds, even in downtown Orlando. North and east facing windows will be most at risk.

If you don't have the experience of continuous 100 mph winds for many hours, you're in for quite a shock. During the three hurricanes of 2004 I would go out my door in the wind shadow of the house (you can't stand up in 100 mph wind. You get blown flat on the ground. Crawling is almost impossible too.) and the wind noise was so loud that you coudn't hear anything.

That is until one of the tornadoes started ripping apart trees a couple hundred feet away. Over totally deafening noise you could hear the sharp cracks as treetops were being twisted until they broke off from the top of the tree and were taken who knows where. It's an eerie sound you'll never forget.

If you haven't done 100 miles per hour winds, you're in for an experience you could never imagine. Stay safe.

Ya, September 04 was crazy. Was on patrol for all three hurricanes (Frances, Ivan then Jeanne) all within 23 days of each other.