It's looking lovely today.

It looks awful.

Skyline at Clearwater Beach has a dramatic view 

http://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-states/florida/clearwater/clearwater-beach.html

Soon this will be the last Florida camera with live feed on Opentopia.

Jime ....... enjoy it while you are able to. No point saving the "big bucks" and regretting it later.  I'd love to visit Fiji ..... looks beautiful

MD, you're right - all war is an abomination, but sometimes necessary protecting what is yours....  Anyway, 3 1/2 months till vacation, Kauai this time.  I need to find a new avenue for escape as Hawwaii is getting repetitive (boring)!  Never thought I'd say that.  Looking at New Zeland or Fiji.  Spending the BIG bucks!!

Commercial breaks have no place in news ....... especially when covering such situations. Obviously money is more important to some channels.

M D, the live coverage on that ABC Channel 10 Miami stream has been very intelligent and informative, so far.  It also helps that they have forsaken commercial breaks to give uninterrupted coverage - so many other channels cannot give up their commercials, even when covering life-threatening situations.  I really resent that.

Hi Jime ..... only this morning I was reading about holidays in Vietnam and how they happily welcome American tourists.

That truly was an awful war ...... for both sides.  We never seem to learn.

How long until your vacation?

MD, I'm not sure the American people are willing to accept the true atrocity of war!  Just look back as far as the Vietnam conflict and it's aftermath!

Rain Shadow ..... I didn't know if abc news was reliable. At the time of the Second Gulf War, hubby and I watched live feed from Al Jazeera tv ..... the original AJ, not the later sanitized version. It wasn't in English but what we saw told its own story. Dreadful acts, committed by US troops, were shown. CNN would later show the same "incident" minus the atrocities. I got the impression that American people were in the dark about what was really happening.

M D, thank-you for that link you shared below, it has a good live stream http://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-1?cid=HP_LB_THUMB

I thought it seemed very far-fetched but I stuck with it because I like Jake Gyllenhaal.

It seems we can expect just about anything now.

It reminds me of that movie 'The Day After Tomorrow.'  It seemed a little far-fetched at the time, but now it feels all too real.

And Mexico has had an earthquake ...... 8.1 magnitude.  I've never known anything like it.

It is truly scary when you look from above on Google Earth and see all those storms marching relentlessly across the Atlantic in a line from Africa.  It is like one giant conveyor belt.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/dangerous-winds-storm-surge-threaten-florida-hurricane-irma/story?id=49697542

Skyline Florida cameras http://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-states/florida.html

Looking calm.

And it's looking very miserable right now.