Welcome to Mobile Ike ('I Like Ike'), I live down in the Fowl River area on the way to Dauphin Island. I'm always on the hurricane threads too... although it looks like this one will miss us.
The last two years I've felt like a 'pin' at the end of a bowling alley around here...sometimes a strike and sometimes a spare, lol.
The SHIPS model seems to be the only one that gets this sucker into Cat.3.--- the others heep her in Cat.1 most of the time- touching into Cat.2.