[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This storm could go up the gut of FL and drench the entire peninsula.

[heterosupremacist]

#2 Extremely Extreme Extremist ~~~ This storm could go up the gut of FL and drench the entire peninsula. Yes, this can go from bad to worse...

[corkoman]

If it goes east of current track we will be spared the worst - many neighbors have dragged out the H shutters but we waiting for the 5 PM update before ascending extension ladders.

hoping for a more easterly track!

[alloysteel]

The Keys are a crappy place to either get into or out of, on the best of days. If thousands are trying to get out by going to Miami, it might be faster to simply swim across from Key West to the coast of the mainland, and maybe safer, too. The air evacuation routes would not be much better, as there is no major air port on the Keys, and boat evacuation is relatively slow, as well, only taking people to Fort Myers or Naples, which are as much threatened as the Keys. Any serious storm surge is almost certain to breach any see walls.

People now in the Keys are so screwed.

[entropy12]

I am not evacuating, at least yet from Jacksonville area in NE Florida. I read somewhere this storm is bigger than the last 10 storms combined.

I had a hard time finding gas for the car this morning. Several stations had paper bags around the nozzles. But there was plenty of food and supplies at Publix store.