Miami-Dade County Zone A evacuation ordered

[Canelaw99]

You know, that goes to show that they should think about revamping this evac zone thing. I mean, issuing an evac for zone B is not that effective. If they had the northern sections of zone b as one thing, and the southern as something else, it would make more sense. For example, during Frances, it made sense to evac zone B's up north, but no sense at all to evac us here in Homestead, but we're still all zone B and have to heed the warning.

[schmita]

I'm sorry, I am confused. Haulover is by Biscayne Bay in North Miami? I lived there for quite awhile along time ago but this doesn't sound right to me.....? Biscayne Bay is to the south, right?

Rickenbacker is a causeway (forgot the spelling sorry) to Key Biscayne........

[KeyLargoDave]

Derek, the big NOAA building on Virginia Key -- is that what you're referring to? Or are you going to tie yourself to the bridge like Skink and dangle naked (wearing a shower cap) in the teeth of the storm?

[SootyTern]

Or are you going to tie yourself to the bridge like Skink and dangle naked (wearing a shower cap) in the teeth of the storm?

[hooralph]

Sitting here in the Tides Hotel on Ocean Drive. Really have no idea what we'll do tomorrow. Think we moved too slow - other hotels are booked. Likely to have a hard time getting a flight out. Miami-Dade OEM left open lifting the evacuation before it goes into effect if the 11 or 5 updates are more favorable for Miami.

[CFL]

When in doubt, *please* evacuate. I live in Cantonment, FL just north of Pensacola. I wasn't even in an evacuation zone when I left for North Alabama last week. I left out of the overabundance of caution and because I didn't want my kids to be scared. I am SO glad I did. There were a lot of tornadoes in the right front quadrant, and one apparently came through my backyard and took off most of my roof. I have huge trees that were uprooted. The damage to my house can be repaired, but the fear it would have put in my kids would likely have lasted a very long time. Also remember - my local forecaster had been forecasting a MS/AL landfall when I left town.

[Lockhart]

I live in an almost 30-story cement building built after Andrew to extreme specifications. Other than windows blowing out, this building will be fine--much better, in fact, than the homes across the *street* which don't have to be evacuated. The whole "evacuate if you're on an island" thing is based on a bad generalization of the wave surge problem. Sure, if you're in a one-floor house on an island and there's a 20 foot storm surge, you're in trouble. If you're in a 30-story cement building, I'd rather be there than literally a couple blocks away in a one-floor house that doesn't have to evacuate because they're in "Zone B".

It's just stupidly done.

[Doc Seminole]

and I plan on riding this storm out on the Rickenbacker causeway (likely will be home by noon on Sunday it appears)

You mean ..... like out in the storm? Literally out on the causeway?