Well, the rain is coming down in sheets, and it’s gusting sideways. My weather app is reporting sustained winds around 30 mph.
It won’t get too bad, but it’s clearly more than a typical rainstorm.
Looks like it’s whipping pretty good way over in Key West, but it’s not stopping people from getting that oh-so-precious photo at the Southernmost Point…
Overall today here in Palm Beach County has been breezy with mostly sunny, a couple rounds of gray & gloomy, and a couple rounds of 30 minutes of rain. It was raining vigorously a few minutes ago and now we have direct sunlight.
There’s a 150-mile intense rain band approaching long-wise. It might stay mostly offshore. If it happens to cruise just on-shore up the length of the suburban metroblob, we’ll have lots of urban flooding.
We’ll know in a couple hours. My eyeball forecast is mostly offshore.
Good luck, @Zakalwe and all!
Near Gainesville here. I think it will have begun in earnest by 8 and be over by midnight. At least that’s what I tell myself, just get through the next few hours.
Thanks all! Cat4 now, but still bending east. My mind is relieved that we’re on the “safer” side, but my heart bleeds for the folks in Cedar Key and Perry. They’ve already been through a lot and now this.
My daughter is in Georgia right in the line. She is well inland but according to the maps it may still be hurricane force winds by the time it gets there. She has ASD and doesn’t handle adversity well. Realistically I’m most worried about prolonged power outages.
Well, we’re back in the western eyewall zone. Power is starting to blink pretty regularly, but is, for now, still on. City of Tallahassee Utilities, props! Drinks are on me after the storm.
Current predictions are 70-90 gusts with 50-60 sustained. So we might keep our record intact. I can hear stuff hitting the roof, but (knock on wood) nothing big yet. The wind from this direction is better for me (fewer big trees on that side).
My local pub was doing a big catering order for the Emergency Ops Center this morning and “opened” for regulars only. Filled all my coolers from their massive ice makers and got some socialization in. Florida Strong, baby!
Drinking my wine and watching TWC. Hope everyone is safe.
I missed this earlier. Where is she at? I know you don’t know me, but if she needs something, I’m not far and ready to help. PM me.
I woke up with no power, but the air is calm.
I hope everybody else faired ok, too.
I see @Zakalwe is replying, so that suggests he’s alive and has enough electricity to waste some on us. So I’ll venture my good news post ahead of his.
Greater Miami had zero issues. No material wind nor rain. It was an unusually breezy and ordinarily intermittently rainy day, but no big deal.
Today dawns a bit breezy, but milder than yesterday. Essentially normal conditions prevail.
We never lost power, but I must admit we are an island in a sea of outages. 52k in Tallahassee and 1.2M in Florida.
One very large limb down in the back yard. Everything else is small debris. We got very, very lucky. Still waiting on reports from family & friends in Perry. Worried about them.
Lost power (but we have a generator). So much debris in our yard it’ll take a lifetime to clean up, but animals, loved ones, house, and fences okay!
We had to move some big limbs off the road to get to work this morning, and saw a lot of damage on the way, but I also saw a big-ass coyote, I was thrilled about that.
Maps I’m seeing show roughly 1.2million without power in Florida. 1.3 million in South Carolina. Another million in Georgia. Lots of work to do for the recovery. Glad to see the Dopers checking in.
Take care of your neighbors and friends. Make them coffee if you can 
And stay safe.
I’m in a suburb to the south of Charlotte, NC. It’s been raining steady for two days. My backyard is a lake. We are under tornado watch until 11am. It’s pretty windy but not crazy yet. Lots of people reporting power being out by so far we’re still good. On top of that we apparently had a 1.71 earthquake right here yesterday (I didn’t notice.)
I’m lucky that my condo community in the metro atlanta area lost power for a couple of hours overnight, but as the storm moves out, things are on and seem stable (couple of flickers this morning). With some winds still around and the ground very soaked after a couple of days of heavy rain, we’re not completely out of the woods for power outages as yet, but it looks better where I am than I thought it would when I went to bed last night.
Earlier the bulk remnant of the hurricane were projected to head west of me in upstate South Carolina, but it veered east. Lots of rain, a fair amount of wind. I have two big trees down in my yard. No power. Just been looking over the local neighborhood and saw probably around 30 trees down, around half a dozen blocking sections of road. Even a couple of utility poles that fell over on their own without the help of a tree.
My power has already been restored!
Apparently they are good. Lost power for a little bit but it’s back on. Seems like it tracked a bit further east of them than it had been projected to go.
Lots of rain and wind here, tornado watch until 6 pm and we’ve already had a couple of tornado warnings broadcast through my phone, along with a flash flood warning.
Power out pretty much everywhere. Surprisingly sane traffic behavior with no traffic lights. The few places to buy food that do have power are crowded like a free Taylor Swift concert at a Buckees