2 p.m.: 26.0 N, 82.4 W

Well. They tell us now that here at our coordinates, we don't have anything to worry about. At all.

We just went from the highest level of alert to ... well, to nothing.

The fact that the storm is now apparently going to hit south and east of here has caused the tone to completely shift among the authorities and the media. Talk has already started of un-evacuating Pinellas County. Here in Hillsborough, it might not even rain, they say.

This, of course, has already started raising accusations of overreaction. What that means is that the storm that does hit Tampa Bay in the next couple of years may result in many casualities, because this -- only five years after the Floyd wolf-cry -- will cause people to further think that nothing will happen to them.

And in Charlotte County, one wonders if they're scrambling like hell now.