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.
Maybe we need a Florida Freeper Roll Call thread after Francis is all said and done. Anyways, good luck to you and everyone else in the possible path of this storm.
Good night, everyone, got to get some sleep.
This thread is helping me stay calm, but tomorrow's going to be busy, I imagine.
Isn't that the truth? You only need to ride out one major storm to know it's no amusement park ride. I sat through Hugo just south of Charleston and knew right away I wasn't doing that again.
We went down to Miami during part of the clean up phase and there's really no way to describe to someone piles of debri (pieces of destroyed homes) bulldozed into piles 2 stories tall or more. It was indescribable!