Howdy former neighbors! I lived just off of Eureka Drive in Cutler Ridge. The northern eye wall of Andrew passed over my neighborhood, 165 mph winds. I live in Broward now (Davie), and this storm is scarin me for sure, when all previous since Andrew have barely drawn a look from me...
Tommorrow, my extended family will make the rounds, putting up shutters on all our houses. Mine will be last, I have no shutters or wood, but I hope I'll have some leftovers from the 4 houses that will be done before mine...
You know, alot of people secretly hope the storm hits them, you know, just to test their mettle or whatever, I know I was like that before Andrew... I am definately NOT that way now... "Rain, rain, go away...."
Hey neighbor!!!! I'm about 8 miles from Eureka right now and will be passing by your neck of the woods tomorrow on the way to my parents to help them board up.
Looks like this thing might be coming closer to our area than they previously though. Hope you and your family are safe through this, and we all meet back up on FR, after we have power back, to discuss happier things.
Hi, former neighbor, yeah, Eureka is very close.
I was also one of those people who wanted to experience a strong hurricane, I was always disappointed when they missed Miami.
Andrew cured me of that, for sure, now I stay freaked out until from mid August 'til about October. I remember about 5 days after Andrew, the first thunderhead showed up in the sky. I looked at it and thought "HOLY SH*t!" and almost started running around battening everything down all over again.
Good luck Friday and Saturday.