[rodguy911]

Yesterday 14 hours to go from Isla Morada to the villages in North Florida bumper to bumper on I-75 I 95 Turnpike almost every major road really tough driving

[palmer]

People who are 30 miles inland or even 20 should not be going north. That just wastes gas for people closer to the coast. It also creates accidents and deaths, it blocks the roads for people who need to leave.

The most important thing to emphasize with this storm is that it is predicted to be cat 4 or less at landfall. NHC is saying cat 4 with perfect conditions. They have two caveats of eyewall replacement and Cuba interaction that will make it cat 3. But they are saying cat 4 to be safe. Only a cat 5 causes destruction 20-30 miles inland, and beyond that cat 5 (Camille and Andrew) were more sporadic meaning people in flimsy houses or mobile homes need to leave.

[mewzilla]

Wow! What befuddles me in this high tech age is the number of folks who don’t avail themselves of it and find other routes. Or failing high tech, use something like a DeLorme Gazetteer. Saw the same thing travelling south for the recent eclipse. Lots of warning that parts of I-81 S were a parking lot, but many didn’t use alternate routes. I don’t get it.