Hurricanes are named after females because only a female's wrath can be felt that forcefully :-)

I guess I won't be going anywhere but hopefully the hotel when I go to US (Florida!) for my training soon in the coming weeks....

In the news today...

Wilma Barrels Across South Florida
By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer
NAPLES, Fla. - Hurricane Wilma crashed ashore early Monday as a strong Category 3 storm, battering southwest Florida with tornados, 125 mph winds that shook the sturdiest buildings and pounding waves that flooded parts of this area and Key West. At least one death was blamed on the storm.

By 9 a.m., the storm's top sustained winds had weakened to 110 mph, a Category 2 storm. It was centered in the middle of the state about 45 miles southwest of West Palm Beach. It was moving northeast at about 25 mph.

A man in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs died when a tree fell on him, Broward County spokesman Carl Fowler said. Fowler had no other details.

The center of Wilma's eye made landfall around 6:30 a.m. EDT near Cape Romano on an uninhabited island of the same name, 22 miles south of Naples in Collier County on Florida's southwest coast, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. But severe weather began long before.

Wilma's devastating winds had reached Florida's east coast by midmorning, with wind gusts of more than 100 mph reported in suburban Fort Lauderdale and Miami.

More than 316,000 homes and businesses lost power in the Keys, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and even into central Florida. Nearly 33,100 Floridians hunkered down in dozens of shelters across the state's southern half.