*Hurricanes*

Well, hurricane "Dennis" is on it's way I guess. I absolutely HATE hurricanes!

Friday's Developments of Hurricane Dennis:
By The Associated Press1 hour, 24 minutes ago

Developments across Florida on Friday related to Hurricane Dennis, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season:

• Thousands of people fled the Keys as Dennis advanced toward Florida with winds of 150 mph amid hurricane warnings for the lower Keys and Cuba.

• Southern Walton County in the Panhandle will be evacuated beginning at 4 p.m. Friday, according to the county sheriff's office.

• Dennis killed at least five people in Haiti. It uprooted trees in Haiti and Jamaica and destroyed a guard tower at the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo as it lumbered toward Cuba en route to the Gulf of Mexico.

• Hurricane-force winds extended 50 miles with tropical storm force winds stretching another 160 miles. Dennis was moving northwest near 15 mph.

• Workers of Florida Keys Electric Co-op made last-minute preparations to protect their 31,000 power customers. "We still have our tree crews out trimming hot spots where branches can blow into the lines," said CEO Tim Planer. "The weather's deteriorating here pretty quickly," and he expects power outages by Friday evening.

• Eglin Air Force Base in Florida was ordered evacuated. The evacuees were told to get at least 100 miles away from the base by noon Saturday. Refugee centers were available in Macon and Columbus, Ga.

• Sailors and Marines from the Naval Air Technical Training Command at Pensacola were evacuated to Albany, Ga., while officer trainees were taken to shelters aboard Corry Station. The Naval Aviation museum was closed until further notice.

• As a precaution, MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa is evacuating its aircraft Friday to McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, Kan.
_The Lower Keys Medical Center closed, and even emergencies were not treated.

• Florida and Alabama remained under a state of emergency declared by their governors.

• Some gas stations ran out of fuel as motorists jammed roads and highways after authorities ordered the evacuation of the lower Keys, but emergency management officials said the evacuation was progressing in an orderly way.

• The space shuttle Discovery remained on the launch pad poised for Wednesday's liftoff at Cape Canaveral after NASA decided the shuttle was out of the storm's range.

• Forecasters said the storm could strike anywhere from Florida to Louisiana by Sunday or Monday.