I stayed up until 4:30, after it had passed our area. I posted on one of the threads at 1:00AM that on radar I could see it crossing I-4 at Lakeland and was directly south of TV and was still heading due north and was on a direct path for TV.
A little after crossing I-4 it did what they called on channel 9, 'blow it's top'. The eye wall that would of cut a path of about 30 miles wide with wall speeds of 95 had disentegrated into a what could be called a squall line. The good news it lowered it's top speed to 85 but spread out to about 60 miles wide from it's 30 miles. This allowed it to include areas east of us such as Apopka, Tavares, Winter Garden, Kissimmee, etc. The good news was it would pass much quicker since it was more of a thin line.
It started coming through around the Rohan Hwy 44 area about 3:45 and crossed 466 about 4:00. I live in the Seabreeze area and really couldn't tell any difference after 4:00 but on radar it the line has passed. The really good news was SECO did a great job and with over 5 million in Florida lossing power, almost no one with SECO lost power. Duke Energy did show some outages in Sumter County.
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