The brunt of the storm came ashore East of Pensacola. Looks like we will get no more than gale force winds and the expected power outage will only last a few hours.

We are currently about 2-3 hours from it becoming history and as you see, I still have power.:) So far, I have lost a huge limb that is now residing on my patio but other than that we are getting off very light.

As far as that "Mandatory Evacuation" of Mobile County that is cya political grandstanding by our Governor. Other than the coastal (sea level) residents There has been no attempt to enforce an evacuation and no more than a few thousand folks have left the area. They opened all Interstate lanes for northern travel yesterday but soon reverted to regular traffic due to lack of interest

Thanks for the well wishes. I will pass them along with my own to those to the East of us in Florida.