If you have caught the weather news today you know that the middle of Florida got hammered last night with tornados and strong winds. Lady Lake Florida, where my sister lives and thank God is alright, suffered three fatalities and the numbers from the storm are now at 15 dead. Over 500 homes are damaged or destroyed. At this time over 20,000 are without power.

The storm is slowly making it’s way down the state, but thankfully has lost a lot of it’s punch.

Just shows you that life is brief and fleeting and things that change our lives happen in an instance. Many of these people in the affected counties are still rebuilding after the unbelievable hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005, so this is the last thing they needed.

Here is where you can contact a Florida Red Cross in the area. Give what you can, nobody does it better and puts more dollars on the ground quicker than the Red Cross.

Fellow bloggers, left and right, forget the differences and spread the word.