My brother in law has a charter boat that he loves to fish out of the Keys.
The captain and crew have weathered many hurricanes there.
When Irma came up, they decamped and left for Ohio. He anchored his boats as well as he could, but he fears they will be lost.
When a long time charter captain says “nope”, it is going to get serious. I hope those that stayed are prepped and ready for this. I fear they are a lot of hippsters that have no idea of what might happen.
WDW: We're closing at 7pm Saturday, won't be open until at least Tuesday.
FloridaPep: Drain the gas from the mower if you have to, we're out of here.
The early CAT 3 way out in the Atlantic with a large, developed formation gives it away to be a monster. Had a very mature convection system setup early. Coworker and I both knew this was going to be bad.