Stay safe, y’all! I do not envy anybody along the coast that might endure this hurricane.
I was “fortunate” enough to go through Hurricane Jeanne, but I was in Clermont which is high ground. And I think it was at category 1 most of the time during that pass, so while it uprooted a lot of trees, the homes in the area were built to withstand such a hurricane.
Had I known that Jeanne was going to do a 270 degree loop in the Atlantic and cross back into Florida that year, I might have stayed home in Tennessee. But at least I got that experience. And I wasn’t in a bad location.
2004 was such a crazy year for FL hurricanes. Frances and Jeanne each made landfall at Sewall’s Point (Stuart). Two landfalls within three miles of each other in one season. Jeanne was loopy to reach Sewall’s Point.