It's Wednesday night and hurricane Francis, a category four (the most being a five) with winds up to 140 m.p.h. and capable of producing billions of damage, is lying off the east coast. The meteorologists say that it is more likely to directly hit about 100 miles north of Miami, though the storm itself is approxomately the same width as the state of Florida. They freely admit, however, that it could hit anywhere along the coastline, Miami included. School is cancelled and many major businesses are closing Thursday and Friday, the hurricane expected to make landfall late Friday night (if it hits south Florida) or early Saturday morning (if it hits central or north Florida). As countless hurricanes have come this close and missed our area by hundreds of miles, I don't expect Francis to do any large amount of damage. When you see five or six hurricanes a season that never hit, and have lived through one of the worst recorded hurricanes in history (Hurricane Andrew, category five, 1992) you're not that worried.

I'll keep posted about Francis though, just in case.