This is NOTHING compared to the hard hit communities and cities in central and northern Florida but thought you might like to see South Beach before, during and after a storm:

This is the typical view from my window:


This is as hurricane feeder bands are blowing across Biscayne Bay (this was from Ivan)


This is as I was packing up to evacuate from Jeanne this past Saturday morning about 8am:


This was Sunday late afternoon as I returned home: the yellow circles are around empty boats floating along the Bay that Mean Jeanne tossed loose:


Guess it true what they say...it's not nice to fool Mother Nature!