Hurricane Frances may be zeroing in on Kennedy Space Center

http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/localstoryN0901FRANCESMAIN.htm

Storm builds steam, heads toward Cape

Leery Brevard County prepares for worst scenario

With Hurricane Frances still charging toward Florida's eastern coast, emergency planners in Brevard County on Tuesday moved swiftly to prepare for the worst.

Any decision to order an evacuation would come at least 24 to 36 hours before the storm begins bearing down on Brevard's half-million residents, said Sheriff Phil Williams, whose agency will be responsible for patrolling much of the county.

Frances' potential threat to Brevard will lessen only if the high pressure system known as the Bermuda High weakens, allowing the storm to turn north farther from Florida, said John Pendergrast, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's office in Melbourne.

By late afternoon, the National Hurricane Center's long-range forecast indicated landfall on Saturday afternoon near Kennedy Space Center, eventually leaving the state just west of Jacksonville by Sunday afternoon.

But even if the eye misses Brevard and strikes another part of Florida's eastern seaboard, hurricane-force winds and intense rainfall could do heavy damage up to 100 miles across.

I still haven't gotten my truck back from the repair shop from the last hurricane.

it's still too early. If the Bermuda high strengthens, possibly due
to other tropical storms exiting the northern regions of influence
for the high pressure area, then Francis could still head south.
If it weakens, Frances could miss Florida and hit South Carolina.
Too soon.

you'd think they'd call it "Hurricane Freedoms"

:)

the Ft. Lauderdale area. What can ya do? And I was supposed to be swimming with the dolphins at Discovery Cove in Orlando Friday night. I'll probably REALLY end up swimming with the dolphins in the Atlantic.

You know, I never did care much for the ocean.

If this one hits me ( and my positive energy thoughts are going out to everyone that will be hit by Frances ), I'm definitely getting out of Florida.