Jeanne (part 3)

A quick update before my PowerBook’s battery dies on me: Power is out and has been since sometime after 10 this morning. Winds are still very strong, gusts keep howling around the buildings corners and the oaks outside are creaking audibly.

My Web connection is lousy right now so I cannot get to many sites, but the NY Times tells me all I need to know with this headline: “A Slowed Hurricane Jeanne Slams Into Florida, on Way to Tampa.” Seems like it took exactly the same path Frances did, even making landfall in precisely the same location.

My university of course still has not decided if they will be open tomorrow. Several buildings on campus have been turned into shelters and apparently they are serving campus food to the poor saps that had to come to the shelter.

I have no idea if this is actually correct, but the one radar image I could bring up with this shitty connection told me Jeanne is sitting right on top of us.

More later, PB and cell phone willing.