Well...not to be alarmist or anything...My neighbor across the street has a brother in law that woprks at AccuWeather. He just called me and said their forecast which is about 15 minutes old hasd Rita doing an "explosive intensification" as it approaches the Florida Keys. Says a Cat 4 as it nears Key West.
Here I sit on Sugarloaf key, 17 ,iles north of Key West.
Take it with a grain of salt, but this could be the worst storm to hit the Keys in decades according to this guy at Accuweather.
Bye for now, got preparations to take care of.
Mandatory evac now up for the Keys. I'm going to hang in here, hopefully I'm not making a mistake.
That massive intensification thing jibes with what I'm seeing on the satellite as this morning unfolds. The 11:00 NHS update should be enlightening.
Jeb Bush on Fox now.
Git yer preps done, and git north ASAP. I think she's gonna bomb out west of the Keys, but you never know. It would be prudent to evacuate. It's gonna be nasty in the Keys regardless of whether she bombs before or after passing.
From a fellow Keys dweller....can we hold off posting alarmist info that comes from the cousin of the brother of the brother in law of the guy across the street, please? It's stressful enough right now without 3rd, 4th or 5th hand info. There are plenty of people down here that don the tinfoil hats and give doomsday scenarios about how "the man" is hiding the REAL truth about the storm from us. Unless it comes from the hurricane center let's keep from speculating. Max Mayfield certainly did his job warning LA and MS about Katrina. We all need to keep an eye on this and prepare to weather a storm or get the heck out but the anonymous sources can stay out of it as far as I am concerned.
IS there any chance it could move North? Hit Palm Beach county? Or is that probability gone?
Care to share why?
What part of the Keys are you in?
Wow when did yo hear that, I'm here in Islamorada trying to get my daughter out of Key West to come home.