WOW, hopefully there's only Property Damage due to them, not to People and Pets!
There have been tornado related fatalities.
The fatalities were all down south. The largest number were in St. Lucie County AFAICT.
There was a time when there were as many as 15 Tornado Warnings active at the same time. Most of them appeared to fizzle away as they got upto Indian River County. About 5 made it into the south and west extremities of Brevard County from the south. Brevard got a few come in from the Ocean and cause some damage, the biggest being in Cocoa Beach where there was a brief tornado touchdown. There was a string of them that went upto Orlando, causing some significant damage in Yeehaw Jct., Keenansville, Deer Park and Holopaw vicinity mostly in thinly populated areas. Fortunately the large new development in Harmony on US192 between St. Cloud and Holopaw was not hit.
One thing that TV stations do here is provide street level guidance on where the tornados and related spinning systems are. In order to do so effectively during the height of the event they had to bring in additional staff to adequately cover everything that was going on.
The center of the eye went by about 20 miles north of my place sometime between 4 and 6am. The system was north loaded, so even though we were on the right quadrants, the usually dirty side, most of the action was on the left hand side this time due to how the wind shear from the cold front which arrived from the north interacted with the hurricane. It exited Florida over Merritt Island as a 90mph or so system,
Personally, I stayed up until a little past midnight and then set up my iPhone for loudest volume for any events reported regarding the storm and went to sleep. This morning I looked at the power system logs and discovered that I had lost power briefly (around 8 mins) while I was awake but hadn't noticed as the backup system transitioned to and back from the batteries smoothly. I was watching TV (Uverse) and the entire signal delivery chain stayed alive without a glitch through the power outage. Woke up a little after the center of the eye passed us about 25 miles to the north as a decent Cat 1 storm (85-90mph) Now at 10am things are absolutely still outside, with an occasional breeze. So I think it is all over. Now to pull down the shutters.
