[Strategerist]

The area of landfall had been under a Hurricane Warning for a long, long time (as Hurricane Warnings go.)

I'm attempting to find a record of the evac orders but pretty extensive mandatory evacs were ordered there, and relatively early (as evacs go.)

[Netizen]

That Ross Cavitt reproter stressed that port Charlotte wasn't expecting a category 4 hurricane and that it was supposed to be a Tampa Bay hurricane, and so people were not prepared.

As you pointed out though hurricane warnings went up for the west coast faily early on and that means 'pay attention'.

I hope they don't try and blame this on Jeb Bush, he did the best he could with the information given to him.