Well, from one drama to another. If you haven't heard about hurricane Charley yet, turn on the news. For me, it's going to be up close and personal. My first hurricane- but at this point it's an experience that I would be just as happy skipping.

So here I am, just east of Tampa, waiting for a category 3 hurricane to hit us full on tomorrow afternoon. And depending on which model you look at, we'll either be right under the eye, or just east of it a little bit. Great fun.

So I've been running around the last 2 days buying water, canned food and other stuff that doesn't need cooking, and trying to make sure that we've got everything stocked and ready to go to sit it out. To say that I'm nervous would be an understatement, and I have a feeling that I won't be sleeping much tonight.

So lets see now, I've been locked out and on my front porch when a tornado hit my apartment complex. Lived in CA long enough to get some quakes- especially when I was in Santa Cruz for 3 years. Watched a plane crash at an airshow. And now I'm going to be stuck in a major hurricane. Can I say that I'm getting sick of disasters? :)

The worst part is, I really want to be writing about the theme parks and stuff, but it just ain't happening. Maybe I'll have to shoot for making a run up to Busch Gardens in the couple of days after the storm and see if I can report on their clean up and how they came through it. We'll see.