At my house in Bartow (Polk County), we are having frequent violent gusts of wind. I missed a wind chime in the pre-hurricane pick-up. It is hanging in the tree by my bedroom - its going nuts with the wind. So far, no transformer booms or the crack of limbs!

Channel 8, out of Tampa, is questioning the predicted northernly curve, thinking a continued western path. If so, will change the path from north of my town to south of my town. Not good.