Mother Nature is sure bringing her wrath to Florida. I cannot believe the last storm lasted so long - over 30 inches of rain in some places! My cousin Kathleen and her husband Greg live in Florida and have been in Australia for the last week. They missed the storms but Goddess knows what shape their house is in.

Now we wait to see what Tropical Storm Gustav does. At this point, news reports say:

Haitians were told to prepare for evacuations as Tropical Storm Gustav formed quickly Monday in the Caribbean on a path to hit — as a hurricane — the country's denuded southern coast before moving on to Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida.