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People with a view of the beach should leave but many won't, especially if their place is concrete. They don't want their place getting looted and there are people who take advantage of people having fled.

Lived in Ctrl FL for 25 years and my sister has lived in the metro Tampa area for the same. Parents lived in Clearwater - niece still does. Mo-in-law lived in Dunedin. There's another set of Keys and islands that act as a surge buffer. Those will be evacuated. None of my family has ever felt the need to evacuate and none have had home damage. All live or lived in a location included in the map below. Parents lived in a mobile home so they would go stay with my sister during a hurricane just to be safe but always went back to an intact undamaged mobile home afterward.

Pretty sure the keys/islands are where DeSantis made fame for setting up a temporary bridge.

LOLOL at concrete...Helene DEMOLISHED our home..it was BRICK, and I haven’t found a piece any bigger than a laptop.

Remember...cash is KING in the ZONE, and Florida is about to become part of it! Learn from experience, or from those of us who fell victim to Helene.

My family in St. Pete and Tampa feel much the same. My sister moved there 45 years ago, and we are native Floridians. Family homestead is in Gainesville, but we also lived in Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Orlando, and Winter Haven before moving back to the homestead. One brother’s family is still in Winter Haven/ Lakeland/Lake Wales area.

The family in WH has sustained flooding and roof damage in past hurricanes. The ones in St. Pete have had minor damage.

I think I fear that debris not yet cleaned up from Helene will become great projectiles.

I’ve lived through the aftermath of family members without power for 3 weeks. It ain’t pretty. I feel helpless from so far away. I’ve had to search for gas, water, and ice for them from here, when they had no power, no way to charge up cell phones, etc. I don’t relish being in this position, but I’m happy to help out if that’s the only thing I can do.

I pray that all in Milton’s way are unharmed. One of these days, people aren’t going to be so lucky.

“Pretty sure the keys/islands are where DeSantis made fame for setting up a temporary bridge”

Actually that was the causeway from Fort Meyers to Sanibel/Captiva. We shared a small vacay place on Sanibel and it was totally destroyed. Desantis directed the temp causeway because it was the only way for help get on island or anyone to get off. Sanibel is about to be hammered again. Predicted 10+ ft storm surge from Milton.. Damn sad.