Sanibel wrote:Cars are half-packed...I keep my most important items in Legal Boxes in my bedroom so that precaution is paying off big time right now and all I have to do is carry them downstairs and load them in to the SUV...I'll disconnect the computer and stow it right before I leave...
Have to get a big lawn bag and empty the refrigerator and freezer in to it...
Have to remember to think so I don't forget anything...I'm just very calmly loading the cars and not straining myself...Hurricane shutters are the last thing before I go...
If there are any Sanibel residents reading keep seriously in mind that this will be a surge-er and the low-lying Causeway will flood over and be impassable well before the hurricane gets here...
I think it is turning right for us for a direct hit...This is it man...
(That east wobble of the eye is probably a shear effect from contact with the trough)...
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Good luck, Sanibel. I know that feeling all too well- finishing last minute checks, hoping for the best but in your gut you’re expecting “the one”. Keeping you in mind- hoping you have a safe and as painless an evacuation as possible.