We are 5 miles from the coast, near Jacksonville, so we are a bit concerned. Hoping it goes more East in the next 24 hours.

Not only are we 5 miles from the coast, we are on a low level lot that is in the flood zone, on the river. Watching updates every time one comes out.

Just keep thinking, go to the East, go to the East.

We are a large single story. When the house was built 15 years ago, it was out of the flood zone. But they changed the maps a few years ago, now we are 2 feet lower then the high the flood zone. We have about 10 LARGE oaks on the property. Few large branches over the house. At high tide earlier today had water from the river in the back yard. The 11 PM has the storm a bit East which is good. The city is like a ghost town. Many of the businesses downtown on the river are boarded up.

All this, and we are still pushing to get some prototypes finished for Expo.

The air is perfectly calm now, in 24 hours, could be 100 miles per hour.

Worse part of the storm will hit us in about 6 hours. The tide will be rising for about that amount of time. Water level has gone up about 1 foot in the last hour. Water is about 3 feet from our floor level. Going to be a stressful day.

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Water has gone up about 6 inches since last post. Getting close to the pool.

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Turning off power to parts of the property now.

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Lost power, lost the well, underwater. And parts are starting to float away. Still 3 to 4 hours from the worst. Not a good day.

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We are on a small island, and the causeway has flooded. Water has gone up 8 inches since last post. Starting to get into garage, very bad.

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Not sure, I would guess the rain. We can tell which way the water is going from the floating stuff. LOL Had no idea how much floating stuff we had in our yard.

We will be safe, not to worried about that, just a lot of work coming. Hope water does not get to the cars.

It looks like the hurricane is a few miles further off shore then was expected, that is good. At this point, if I had to do it again, I would stay. A lot of little things you don't think about. We forgot to move the propane tanks, forgot we had a kayak behind one of the out buildings till it floated away. Been wading out in the yard to retrieve a lot of stuff.

And hey, never seen fish in my backyard till now, that will be a funny story in about 12 hours, LOL

Thanks for the good wishes.

I think we, the entire area is getting lucky, because at this point if every thing was normal, the tide were be going out, getting lower. So with the tide going out and the water raising, that is pretty amazing to me.

I have lived here 16 years, and this is about 3 feet higher then I have every seen it.

Got power back, so that is a plus.

parts of Jacksonville set storm surge records.

My house is about 2 feet higher then the water, even though we are a one story, our house is about 3 feet above the ground. The water is still rising, but the rate of rise is slowing. Pinball machines are safe.

Water has dropped about 4 inches, so over all I feel pretty lucky, could have been a lot worse.

Thanks for the concern.

Everything is good. We just got power on a few minutes ago, still waiting on water. The water dropped about 2 feet in the 3 hours after my lost post, pretty close to normal now. Winds were much weaker then other storms we have been through here. Really surprised on the water, never seen that before. Just got water into my 3 outbuildings, which is a minor issue. Only got into garage a few inches, then it stopped. Things could have been a lot worse, so I am pretty happy.