Hello all,

Lost power for 18 hours. I got lucky this time (7 days for Charley)

Everything else is good. Just couldn't believe how long it lasted. We got the first outer band of wind and rain Saturday afternoon and the last one should be here in about 30 minutes. About a 48 hour storm.

Unfortunately, even though I have not food for them, every ant in the neighborhood has decided it's safer in my place than anywhere else.

Now for the stats from my wind station. Sustained winds were as high as 68mph The highest gust I recorded was 94mph. But the main part of the storm crossed 100 miles south of me. Charley had sustained winds of 90mph and gusts as hih as 112mph.

By the way - Sewall's Point was the official point of landfall of the eye. My sister lives on Sewall's Point. She's fine in her $1.2 million hovel.