My husband is on the emergency county team and they held a press conference about an hour and a half ago.
If the storm tracks like they say it will, toward the center of the state, they'll be deconstructing the emergency preps by midnight.
That includes closing shelters, etc.
But for now, everything's on hold! They want to make sure the storm does what the forecaster's are predicting, LOL.
They were wrong once. But we did dodge the bullet as far as storm surge because even if it came north straight to us we still would not be dealing with surge in Tampa Bay.
I know that before a hurricane in the 80s that Shell Key used to be attached to St Pete Beach.