[oceanview]

it looks now as if it will cross florida, jump into the ocean again, and hit the southern facing coast of south carolina.

[ExSES]

Sitting here about 20 miles NE of Orlando on a lake. Looks like we'll have some real effects from this one! Orlando's record recorded winds are less than 100mph many decades ago. I wouldn't be surprised to see a new record set!

Being a native of Key West, I've been through quite a few hurricanes. Several on my Grandfather's boat (he used to just run it up into a canal through the mangroves at high tide and put out 4 anchors plus lines to mangrove roots (environmentalists recoil in horror at this today!!!). The winds would howl like a banshee and the boat would need to be painted afterwards but, we survived!

My last real hurricane was in 1966 in Tampa. A group of us at the Davis Island Marina rode out the storm on a 44' Houseboat while we consumed cases of beer and tended the lines on our respective boats (there was about an 8 foot rise at high tide due to the hurricane blowing the gulf waters into Tampa Bay!)

Quite frankly, approaching seven decades of storms, I could do without the adrenalin rush!!!