Looking good for Orlando:
MIAMI Hurricane-preparedness is all about watching the cone. And Tuesday, Hurricane Irenes tracking cone curved just far enough away from the Florida peninsula to cause emergency officials up and down the state to breathe a cautious sigh of relief.
We are out of the cone at the moment, though we have seen it wobble in the past, said Peter Elwell, the town manager in Palm Beach, referring to the constantly evolving cone on forecast maps that designate a hurricanes probable path. The cone moving away from us is a mixed bag: You know the bullet you are dodging is going to hit somebody else.
The mouth of the dangerous storms cone took dead aim Tuesday at North Carolina, where officials scrambled to get ready. But federal and state authorities warned residents in other places not to be complacent; they said Irene would likely affect nearly every state along the East Coast.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center here said they were becoming increasingly confident that Irene, a Category 2 storm late Tuesday with sustained winds of 100 mph, would gradually increase in strength over the warm Gulf Stream waters. The Bahamas are expected to bear the brunt of the storm over the next several days before it veers on a more northward path toward the Carolinas, forecasters said.
The hurricane would most likely make landfall in North Carolina by the weekend, they said.
Irene, the first major storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, could threaten the entire East Coast, said Craig Fugate, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in a conference call with reporters Tuesday.
Good news is that the weather around a hurricane is ually quite nice, so we should be fine.
I've read in a couple of posts now that as of right now, 
