Good morning everyone. Preparing for Milton. My side of the state will not have the winds that the gulf side will have. Still we will have cat 1 conditions & I'm on an island 3 blocks from the beach. We have our supplies in, now I'm just buttoning up the house and my daughters house. She's out of town. Fingers crossed 🤞 & prayers for all. All of us here in Florida appreciate the good wishes and concern of everyone. Thank you.
Well the Island really took a hit with Helen. 3-4ft of water in every building and 150 homes totally gone.
Same here....cautious and waiting for now....if she strays south at all we're doomed. The Florida bay will pile into the everglades and keys. Thinking about storm shutters now, as everything else is buckling up. Still have big decisions to make regarding about 4 million dollars in fishing yachts, and where to protect them....we ain't going north that's for sure !! Unlike ARC, we are quite hardened down here, and we feel all the storms in some way or another as they more often than not pass close to us here in the islands !! So I've seen this approach before....late storm that enters from the west and exits on the east coast. Combined with a strong October king tide, and the surge will dwarf what we just saw from helene!! In key largo we are in the heel of Florida bay....the water has no where to go except through the small gaps in the islands. Storm surge can be epic here in this scenario.
