Yahoo! News - Weakened Frances Leaves Much of Florida in Chaos
COCOA, Fla. (Reuters) - Weakened after its long rampage through Florida, the lumbering giant of a tropical storm that began its tear as Hurricane Frances moved into the Gulf of Mexico early on Monday, leaving chaos in its wake.

The $9.1 billion citrus industry, hard hit by Hurricane Charley last month, was likely to take another blow as the storm moved across the state's best growing regions as a hurricane.

Frances could cause between $2 billion and $10 billion in insured losses, industry group Risk Management Solutions said.

The human toll, in lost housing and livelihoods, will also be great. "We think it's going to be an enormous bill," American Red Cross President Marsha Evans told CNN on Sunday. "We think that it's going to involve many more families perhaps than Hurricane Andrew did because it is so widespread."

Florida's not looking so good to live in anymore. It was fascinating to see a storm that was bigger than the entire state- they are very, very lucky that it weakened. If it had come in at a category 4 the devastation would have been tremendous.