Just heard it on Bay News 9 in Tampa. Still too early to tell what path in FL this thing will take.
I think that’s why Scott declared emergency in every county because even if it’s just a rain event, we’re going to have flooding in many counties.
There’s an EOC meeting this afternoon in our city...never hurts to be prepared, even if it’s just a rain event.
I’m one of those rare native Floridians, actually 6th generation, our kids are 7th generation, and their kids are 8th generation and we’re pretty nonchalant about storms.
But we check our emergency supplies each June, and make sure we have plenty of food, gas for the grill, gas for the generator, etc. The one thing I don’t want to have to do is to try to shop for supplies right before a storm, that’s why prepping ahead of time is so helpful. We have a pool full of water, with chlorination tablets to make it drinkable...but when we were kids, my folks used to fill up the bathtubs and big garbage cans with water.
Our window coverings are all pre-prepared, but we haven’t had to use them since the 4 storm year (can’t quite remember what year that was.)
When we were youngsters, we thought hurricanes were so much fun. We got to miss school, stay up all night if it passed in the night, hurricane parties, eating food and snacks my folks wouldn’t have normally bought. And the very best was going out to the beach after the rain and finding all sorts of things that washed up. Then I grew up, became a home owner, and storms were never “fun” again. Didn’t wish for them to come, like we did when we were kids, we wished for them to go away or at least bypass our area.