Keep me posted on how it goes dear. Post some pics when it hits your town too!! :-)

Ohm, I'm not going outside in the wind and rain to try and take pics. Remember, I'm no photographer. :-) So far (8:30 a.m.), it doesn't seem too bad. There are scattered power outages in the area, some trees and limbs down, closing a few roads, but nothing widespread. I slept like the dead last night, so I don't know how hard it rained. It is rainy and windy right at the moment, but they think by mid-day the worst will be over and by tonight, we could have clearing (about the time the system will move into the NYC area). We have definitely seen worse. There is some localized flash flooding, but I'm on high ground here, so that is never a concern at my house. Get this, we are supposed to go to a party at a house Mark is building today from 12-3. The party is on (unless they lost power) and the weather may have improved enough by then to go! It also looks like we dodged the bullet on Ike, though I wish I could say the same for the Gulf coast. That is one big and nasty hurricane (Cat 3). Hanna was a measly tropical storm. There is no comparison.