Well, one interesting note from the 5:48pm recon data run from Charley: the eye wasn't found to be circular. It's listed as being elongated, open eye, running SW-NE, about 15nm wide and 20nm long. Worst winds found to be 82kts, which is a lot less than the 102kts found earlier. Altogether you'd think that's all good news, except the pressure is 978, which ain't good, not at all.

Interesting. Add another 31,000 people in Manatee that just got their evac orders. We're up to about 800,000 total people on west coast told to boogie out....

Londovir