I hope everything stays safe for you Kay. The last report I heard is that they expect it to quickly lose strength as it moves inland. I sure hope they are right about that.

Was thinking about you, Kay as I watched the weather channel tonight. I don't know exactly where you are but you look to be pretty well entrenched in the path. Since I am further north, I think we will only get the rains with slight tornado risk. This has been a tricky one as they changed location and direction ever so slightly several times, but as we know, just a few miles makes a great deal of difference with one of these. Hopefully, you will be safe. Let us know.

Kate

I hope the storm passes without any problems.

Nancy

Kay, I hope you and everyone in the storm's path stays safe.

Lori

Kay, know how scary this is for you and for all people in the path of this storm, including our daughter and family in the FL panhandle and good friends in Northeast Alabama. We are certainly hoping this thing blows itself out before too much damage is done.

There have been tornado warnings and trees down already withing just a few miles of here. Kate, it seems to have us right in the path, and we have been told we will continue to have rains all night and high winds tomorrow...at least they have come down a bit...30 to 40 with gusts of 50. They do say we will have power outages and trees down and little(?) tornadoes will be common too. Ah well. All you can really do with weather is talk about it. I do hope and trust we will be safe....and we did need rain.

kay

The worst of it is over. we got a ton of rain and wind (over 6 inches by our rain gauge, and I believe it form the massive rain fall) I haven't been out to see, but no large trees appear down here, though there are trees down all over the place by report. Flooding confined to coasts.

Nate is now a tropical depression. We lost power at 0700 this morning, (thankfully, I had coffee already) and got it back shortly after 0900. Well done Alabama Power. The daylilies do look very happy with all the water, the asparagus are a bit overwhelmed, and I am very grateful that though we were directly in the path, we were blessed that it was much less intense when it went over us.

kay

Ditto Debra's comments, Kay. I am so far north that we only got a few showers of no significance. Much less than the original forecast. I did need rain, although not 6 inches!! Glad you were not without power for long!!

Kate

I'm so glad it was no worse, and happy daylilies are a good thing.

Thanks, Kate and Nancy. Well, it didn't make too big of a mess since it rained all afternoon and then really rained in the night and this morning....we had a break, and it started abut the biggest portion, over four inches, came yesterday and last night. I had moved or planted so many plants that the rain is a really good thing. Only Purple Turantula remains to plant. When I have time, I will remove the border stones from the bed that is retiring.

kay

Boy , you guys down far south really have been getting hit hard this year ....glad to hear that you and your gardens survived and are doing well.

We had some big winds come up Saturday night October 7th ( out of the blue as we havent seen any wind now for a couple of months along with no rain ) .

We also have a huge old elm that towers over the house. It was hit by lightning 3 years ago but continued to look fine until this past winter . It died completely but we couldnt take it down as the ground did not freeze last winter . The thing has to be 50 feet tall.) anyway , we were sitting watching tv and all of a sudden there was a huge gust of wind that slammed the back door shut and a huge thump. I felt the house shake . Anyway upon inspection, one of the huge arms of this skeleton of a tree came down .Took out part of an old apple tree with it but missed the house ( thank goodness) Hope we get some real cold this winter to freeze the ground so we can get this eyesore and dangerous tree down .

Signet, I am glad you escaped damage to the house. We have an enormous oak that towers over the house and it is always a worry, and I think I will push to have it down after it drops its leaves. It makes an awful mess on the house and deck and we are too old to deal well with it. If it fell on the3 house, the house would be crushed.

There are always weather issues, aren't they? So many places are dealing with fires, and that would be terrifying to me. We have a local meterologist, James Spann, who goes on the news whenever really bad weather affecting is state occurs. He seems to know every little piece of a road, statewide, and gives great confidence. Some people become very angry, but tornado warnings and the like are worth someone not getting to ss their "program. Four hurricanes have been a bit much, that is true.

kay