According to weather.com it should ease up after midnight, so only an hour to go, maybe?
Hope these bring you a few chuckles:
President Bush toured parts of Missouri that were devastated by a recent tornado. There was one awkward moment, when the President looked at the tornado damage and said, 'Don't worry, we're going to get whoever did this.'"
The U.S. has only three hurricane warning centers - Coral Gables, FL, Guam, and Honolulu, HI (recently completed). All three have faced Category 4 hurricanes in the past month. Which only goes to show: If you build it, they will come!
How to Fight Hurricanes Suggestions collected from all over the Web
Building large fans on the coast to blow away approaching storms.
Fan Them Away
Coating the surface of the water with olive oil in order to prevent evaporation.
Towing an iceberg down to Florida to cool down the water temperature in order to prevent evaporation.
Pray them away.
Use of a nuclear warhead to blow a hurricane out of the water.
Flying a Boeing 747 into the monster storm, where it would hit it with tons of super absorbent powder, literally sucking it dry and breaking it apart.
Call the movers.
Supposedly, these are real answers to various exams:
"Equator: A menagerie lion running around the Earth through Africa."
"The tides are a fight between the Earth and moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight."
"Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire."
"I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing."
"Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime."
"While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating."
"In making rain water, it takes everything from H to O."
"Rain is saved up in cloud banks."
"Thunder is a rich source of loudness."
"Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound."
"We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on."
"Clouds are highflying fogs."
Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do.