Personal Note: Here it comes ...

It's just started drizzling now: time to bring in the lawn chairs, shut the windows and batten down the hatches ...

ETA (noon): A gray, damp morning till a little while ago -- rain coming up from the south, so I missed it starting staring out a north-facing window. Wind beginning to pick up, right on schedule ...

ETA (14:00): Steady rain, light winds. The petunias in the window boxes are actually perking up, for some reason ...

ETA (16:00): Intermittent downpours. Wind playing in the tree branches, but not to the extent that anything is tempted to come down. Petunias still perky ...

ETA (18:00): Hard rain and gusty winds, interspersed with periods of relative calm. Petunias hanging in there. Flash flood warnings added to the flood/hazardous weather/tropical storm wind warning mix, but since I live on top of a hill, I sneer at them ...

ETA (20:00): Still raining; wind wrinkling the puddles, but tree branches swaying rather than thrashing. Barometer bottoming out. Can't see the petunias anymore; too dark ...

ETA (22:00): Rain's stopped; sky is clearing, south to north, behind the last of the wind. Stepped outside to check petunias, which appear bizarrely refreshed. That's that, and I'm for my bed ...