My concern is salt water in the air from sustained tropical force winds. That’s not good for a vegetable garden. You know how when you park your car at the beach and that salt gets on your windshield? It’s like that, but on plants. Hoping for the best, but certainly being taught a lesson. There were other signs like seedlings popping up from the ground all happy and then dead in two days because it’s so f’in hot! Yet I continue to plant.
Oh, and surge will be a concern with the southwest wind piling up Gulf water into Tampa Bay. How close the storm gets to the coast will determine the amount of flooding. I’m actually kind of curiously excited to see how the new infrastructure on the barrier island handles the water. The new infrastructure that killed probably 100 cars (mine included) in our neighborhood. It better be worth it.