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here comes tropical storm Arlene...which is responsible for one death in miami already, a Russian exchange student swept out to sea by heavy rollers..........Ivan Victims Making Plans For Arlene As Storm Heads For Panhandle

UPDATED: 5:17 pm EDT June 10, 2005





PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. -- Officials urged people in low-lying areas of Escambia County to evacuate Friday as a rainy, strengthening Tropical Storm Arlene headed for a weekend landfall on the northern Gulf Coast, an area still recovering from Hurricane Ivan nine months ago.

















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Arlene could strengthen into a weak hurricane before hitting land Saturday afternoon, forecasters said. Many residents seemed to be taking no chances, as hardware stores said generators, flashlights and other hurricane supplies were in high demand.



Six hurricane shelters were being opened in the Florida Panhandle.



The voluntary evacuation also applies to mobile homes, manufactured housing and travel trailers such as those provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Ivan's victims who are waiting for their homes to be repaired or rebuilt.

Batton down the hatches LC,

Take care luv x

Arlene what next, where do the weather people find these names? and aren't the storms coming in a bit early this year? i think Arlene is so funny. :-2

it IS early...and they should have called it Agnes! LOL............this photo taken in my area this morning~~~

yes it should have been Agnes as that is my middle name after my grandmother Agnes who lived in Florida for many years. But Arlene seems to be a better name. Now people might name their daughters born during the storm Arlene.

i don't know if anyone here is in harm's way, but tonight the panhandle counties were urged to evacuate. ........TW i understand the fascination with wild storms. but i have to say, the miami area looked like hiroshima after andrew, my cousin lost her baby, and my aunt lost her house and everything she ever owned in the world. every family photo and memento. she has never been the same since and she lived in Berlin during WWll. some people were born and raised here and have careers here, it's not like they say "oh i want to live in hurricane country".

Hi LC take care hunny i hope you will be ok. I will be thinking of you xxx :-4

Angel chocobo wrote: Hi LC take care hunny i hope you will be ok. I will be thinking of you xxx :-4thanks Angel, i am not worried about this one, it's blown past me. we will continue to have some heavy rains, that's all. xoxoxox....i do worry about the people still not recovered from ivan.

I will be thinking of you LC.. Hang tight - To bad u don't have Boths kilt to hang too huh? Hows everybody doing by the way? - HUGS!!! :-4

Awesome, but why did the bloke in the photo appear to be wearing a bikini???!

i am not in the line of fire this morning, (saturday) but it's pouring rain and we are under tornado watch. ..........

Ivan Victims Making Plans For Arlene As Storm Heads For Panhandle



UPDATED: 8:13 am EDT June 11, 2005



PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. -- Tropical Storm Arlene plodded toward the northern Gulf Coast early Saturday, making weather-weary residents even more nervous knowing they were under a hurricane warning.



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The warning stretched from Pascagoula, Miss., to Destin in the central Florida Panhandle, and inland communities also braced for a hit. By early Saturday sustained winds of 46 mph -- with one gust of 69 mph -- were recorded near Apalachicola, Fla., on the Panhandle's southern tip.

At 8 a.m. EDT, the storm -- becoming somewhat less organized, forecasters said -- was 105 miles south-southeast of Mobile, Ala., and meandering toward the north-northwest at 15 mph.

"This motion should bring the center of Arlene near or over the northern Gulf Coast later today or tonight," Jack Beven, a specialist with the National Hurricane Center, said early Saturday.

Forecasters said Arlene could build into a Category 1 storm by landfall, with its heaviest winds and rains east of the storm's center.

john8pies wrote: Awesome, but why did the bloke in the photo appear to be wearing a bikini???!in key west anything is possible, but that was not a bloke.

lady cop wrote: in key west anything is possible, but that was not a bloke.


Good mornin' LC... glad this is on the other side of Florida from you.....

I get mail every morning from my girlfirend in Ft. Lauderdale...which I am assuming wouldn't get the brunt of this rain coming down...although she say's they're having alot of thunder storms. Jeeze.......I alway's have to get a map of Florida to figure out what's happening where!

Tell you what......we get news of what's happening in Florida in OUR Southern CA newspapers every day which I think is very cool!

Take care........

xxxxoooo

Love ya,

Mama