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09-02-2004, 05:36 PM #1OPSenior Member
To Those of You In FL
I had no idea the impending storm was so large and in charge.
All of you down there please take care of yourselves, and remember that no material posessions can even come close to the value of your own health and life. Wishing you guys all the best.
"With more than 1 million Floridians now urged to evacuate, forecasters warned the Category 4 storm could be worse than Hurricane Charley last month and even worse than Hurricane Andrew of 1992, the most expensive storm to ever hit the United States.
While Charley was as a Category 4 storm as well, Frances is twice as wide, Ed Rappaport of the National Hurricane Center told NBC's "Today" show Thursday. As a result, he said, expect "the same kind of devastation but perhaps over a larger area near landfall."
Andrew, for its part, was more intense at its core but also "a smaller storm ... so we expect a wider area of damage than we saw with Andrew," Rappaport said."clevemire Reviewed by clevemire on . To Those of You In FL I had no idea the impending storm was so large and in charge. All of you down there please take care of yourselves, and remember that no material posessions can even come close to the value of your own health and life. Wishing you guys all the best. "With more than 1 million Floridians now urged to evacuate, forecasters warned the Category 4 storm could be worse than Hurricane Charley last month and even worse than Hurricane Andrew of 1992, the most expensive storm to ever hit the Rating: 5