Is it a jinx to talk about it now?
Is it two or so weeks too early to discuss?
I hope not.

NO HURRICANES!!!
NONE IN SIGHT!!!

Man we have been fortunate this year and four years running now in Florida, since Wilma.

While hurricane season runs through 11/30, generally, once 10/31 comes around, with the cooler temperatures, seems anything that forms will be nothing but a nuisance and not a grave concern as June through October.

Right now, cooler temps in South Florida and East Coast. That helps tremendously.

I took a chance and removed all my patio shutter curtain tracks from the ground. I am banking we are done for 2009. Man would I love for my insurance to go down.
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I sure hope you knocked on wood...
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I hope nothing happens anymore this year. Im sure my family on the gulf coast is thinking the same thing you are Carlos.
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It's funny, now that I am a homeowner I take hurricanes much more seriously then I used to*. I am very glad that we have been hurricane free for a while now....at least since I bought my house. :-)


*- See me going out in Wilma to throw a frisbee around, lots of fun throwing into the wind and it coming back and past me ~80-90 yards up the street. Or skateboarding with an open umbrella to push me along, etc. etc. :-)
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We have had five straight days where the temperature didn't get over 75 during the day and it's been in the low to mid 40s in the morning. This is definitely a good sign because the surface water temperature in the Gulf should have started dropping some too. So I have my fingers crossed also.
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My mother in NC lost her trees to Hugo, and my uncle in Gulfport got smacked by both Camille and Katrina. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
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It has been a strange summer in that respect. I was just saying the other day that I can only remember once this summer when the air even felt tropical. I kinda missed it!!!
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