We who live in Florida are now threatened by Hurricane Irma, a dangerous category 5 monster. Its path is uncertain at this time but all of Florida is under a hurricane watch.

I live in Port Richey which is in the western part of Florida in the
Gulf of Mexico. Best get ready for the worst and pray that the storm
moves out to sea and no one gets hurt. Pray for Florida. Lloyd

My parents lived in New Port Richey FL. been there many times....
hope it misses you somehow. I know the feeling when 4 years ago
we on the shore here got decimated by SANDY and many people are
still rebuilding to this day. Mother nature can be relentless.

stay safe

HURRICANE IRMA

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Lloyd,

Wishing you and all Floridians the best. I'm praying for lots of you since we have a large extended family aka friends in Florida on both coasts, on the panhandle and Central Florida. Be safe.

Renewed concern for our friends in the path of this monster storm. I would love to offer shelter to SZ'ers who need it but we have already committed to old friends of ours in the St Augustine area (mandatory evacuation) plus their daughter who is a doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, and her son. This storm does not play favorites. Best of luck to all of you and hope you come out of this with minimal loss of any type.

chas

I am certainly not looking forward to this. Especially after staying home for Ivan. Now that was scary. We evacuated to Georgia for Dennis. Not looking forward to either option and the possible outcomes. A few years ago this house was flooded and had to be gutted.

It makes me think of moving back to Wisconsin which I left in 1985, but on the other hand I was in a tornado there in 1965 that ruined our house. We had to move out that day. The house was going up and down like an elevator. Only thing that saved us was the roof blew off and equalized the pressure in the house. We thought that was it for us at the time.

Anyway, I hope it goes out into the Atlantic for everybody's sake and am looking forward to getting past this as soon as possible.

Take care everybody in Irma's path.

We're 20 miles North of Savannah in Bluffton and are prepared to leave today for Greenville. Looks like the storm is leaning West which means we may get a break so we're hanging till tomorrow. My house is at the highest point in Bluffton at 32 feet above sea level so flooding is not our concern. House is 5 years old so it's built pretty well. Major Cat 2 or above wind is a problem.
Went thru Sandy in NJ now two hits here.
Wish we would have moved to Ashville, I can take a little cold and snow over this.

My wife and I flew out Wed. Had to drive to Orlando from Fort Myers as no flights available from home. Booked tickets...by the time we paid online, they went up $200 each. Talk about price gouging!

We're sitting in WI with my oldest son's family. Hope we have a house to go back to. May end up using my 970 box for a canoe.

Keep FL in your prayers guys...thanks. Jingleman.

Gary's stomping grounds, Marathon Bay, is barely above water normally. I would think it will be totally underwater.

But I also heard one airline was offering $90 seats for people to get out of FL ...