Even here in the UK are getting TV pictures and reports of this terrible weather. Stay safe everyone.

We are getting reports of Ian here in Australia too.

Our Eastern States have been heavily battered with rain and flooding has caused a lot of home destruction.

Here in the West the weather has suddenly turned warm and the managed burn-offs have started so the air reeks of smoke. Better that than unchecked fires though.

Thank you all! We live NW of Orlando and are fine. We lost some small tree limbs, but never lost power. And we are on high enough ground that the unrelenting rain didn't cause us any issues. I would be interested to know how much rain we got!

I am concerned about Woodnymph. At least we are not near the coast.

Donna

Good to hear from you, Donna! Glad that you are safe and didn't suffer the terrible damage we are seeing on the news.

Thanks to everyone who commented. I am right in downtown Charleston where we had major flooding of streets, power outages, and several large old trees down, blocking roads in historic areas. I feet lucky as I lost no power, although many did. Ian came ashore just north of here as a Cat 1 hurricane and because it was so huge, it seemed to last forever: howling winds and tree limbs down everywhere here. Now it is threatening the Wilmington NC area and will move on up to Virginia. The strange thing about this hurricane was that our weather turned so cool that I had to turn on the heat.

Good to hear you all are all right. Louisville could use some of that rain, but I saw that Gov. DeSantis is calling Ian a 500-year storm.

Woodnymph, we had the same chill afterwards. We went out yesterday afternoon to start cleaning up and found the wind still blowing pretty hard and the temp around 62. Quite a change from our usual 85-90 degrees this time of year!

It did seem to last forever. I’m glad you fared well, too too.

Donna

Donna and Woodnymph - relieved to hear that you are both ok! The pictures coming out of Florida now are frightful - so much damage. Here in Virginia, Ian's remnants are giving us a couple days of rain, with some mild winds, but that's all. Because it's been so dry lately, the rain is actually quite welcome.

Glad donna and others that you are OK. I feel blessed in that I have just learned that many in my building suffered water damage in their apartments. It was all about the wind speeds and directions. I am fortunate to live on the "dry", sunny side of the building. Fall here will not be as beautiful as usual because so many trees here have been stripped of their leaves.

Oddly enough, here in CT we got the remnants of Ian late yesterday and into the night with rain and some wind...but nothing catastrophic. So far we've been very lucky weather wise this year and I hope it continues. I'm so glad you all are OK and that you didn't suffer through another unbearable storm, Woodnymph. Mother Nature has a very nasty and destructive temper. I hope for all of us that she's gotten it out of her system now.