That's what we're hoping for, Mint, and as of this morning the center of the track has shifted a bit to the west, but as we learned here in a very devasting way, anywhere in the shaded areas is fair game, and once this bitch gets past Cuba and gets over the warm water of the Florida Straits and the Gulf of Mexico it'll strengthen very rapidly. This morning's center line is very similar to Charley's and the weather station atop the hospital that's about 6 or 7 miles from my home recorded winds of 173 mph before it blew away.

Optimism is good, and I'm very optimistic we won't get the worst of this, but now's the time to get ready just in case because things could go badly very quickly come Tuesday as they did with Charley which was on a track to go to Tampa but turned very quickly to hit Charlotte Harbor only a couple of hours before the eye went right through here. Prepare now to avoid problems and panic when it's too late.

My big regret if Fay doesn't strike us is that somebody else is gonna get the shit kicked out of them and nobody should have to go through that.
Having said that, after having personally experienced the devastation of a hurricane,a lot of the people of New Orleans, who were hit by Katrina just over a year after we were hit by Charley, are a bunch of whiny little babies.