Irma. That hot chick that stops by and wrecks your life.

If anyone needs a place, im outside Charlotte nc. Can't offer a while hell of a lot, but we will be a lot better off than tje coast.

Definitely glad I live safely inland (by around 1000 miles).

Given some of the predicted routes, hopefully if we decide to go back to Isle of Palms for our anniversary again next year there will still be something left of it to visit!

I hope everyone stays safe!

If anyone needs a place and can make their way up to Baltimore, I can make room. Just don't be freaked out by IVs. 

My sister just moved from Kansas to Columbia, SC last week 

I have an exgf in Tampa that I'm still friends with.

I hope things aren't going to be as bad as they are predicting.

Newest projections have this pointed right at Miami, still as a category 3+.  That's a big city with drainage issues and lots of buildings of varying construction quality that hasn't had a direct hit in nearly 100 years, this could be a really bad time in So Fl. 

The track keeps moving east but not far enough east.

If it tracks like this, it will mean maximum damage all the way up the coast from Miami to South Carolina. I don't think you could line it up worse.  

I hope it keeps moving east. 

Presently it looks like we'll be OK over here in Biloxi. We have a couple couches and an air mattress if anyone needs a place to evacuate to.

We will stick it out here. As the crow flies, we are 22 miles from the coast and we aren't in a flood zone. It will suck, but we won't be in any danger. 

We stayed for Hugo as well and at the time we were less than 3 miles from the ocean. 145 mph winds made for a pretty exciting 7 hours. Once again we weren't in a flood zone and stayed dry. 

“Hey Google…How do I get to Charleston?”

“Well Irma, Turn right at Miami, go 500 miles north, and then turn left.”

All of the lines look like a direct hit on my Wive's best friend in Vero Beach. Lucky for her she is in Norway right now but hopefully she has something to come home to. 

Be safe and all of your friends in TX are thinking of you guys too. 

If the tracks keep moving east each day like they have been it won't be but another day or two and I'll be right in the crosshairs. I live less than a mile from the beach as the crow flies and on the intracoastal waterway, so very much in a flood zone. They close the bridges to/from the island in anything over 45mph winds. My son has special needs and we will definitely evacuate instead of riding it out if it looks like it will be heading this way.

Of course since it seems that most of FL is already on the roads headed north, I'm guessing that we will end up in a traffic mess no matter when we go. There was about 30 cars waiting in line at the gas station when I just went out for lunch.

Stay safe down there!

Just watching an update on TWC, and the models are starting to agree that the storm will hit Miami very directly, and head right up the coast. 

Stay safe- it looks to be a rough weekend.

I'm getting the impression that my family will be fine- winds in Ponce are not too heavy.  And the storm is now north of the NW coast of PR, and moving quickly.

Tim and I will be bugging out tomorrow just before midnight, if all goes well, and heading for our cabin (normally) an hour inland. Better than the coast, and with multiple family members and pets following, more obtainable than points off the peninsula. See you on the other side.

margie

Marjorie Suddard said:

Tim and I will be bugging out tomorrow just before midnight, if all goes well, and heading for our cabin (normally) an hour inland. Better than the coast, and with multiple family members and pets following, more obtainable than points off the peninsula. See you on the other side.

margie

Y'all stay safe. 

I'm riding this one out. I'm about as far inland as I can get without going back to a coast. It should be interesting. 

I'm in St Augustine. Bit of a deja vu moment, as Hurricane Matthew had a very similar track up the east coast just last October.

Anyway, we'll see what happens. We're praying the track keeps getting adjusted eastwards (sorry guys further north!). We have plenty of time between now and Sunday to decide if we leave and head to a local shelter and lots can happen between now and then. We're just outside any of the flood zones and sustained just a few tree limbs down last year, so I'm hoping for a repeat or better.

When is the last time we heard from Gameboy?

pheller said:

When is the last time we heard from Gameboy?

Unless he's on travel, Barbados isn't anywhere near the storm.  

On a different note, my family is ok- thankfully, the storm took a slightly northern turn just about at the Virgin Islands.

For the past three days, the models keep shifting this thing closer and closer to me, First it was Miami, then Savannah, now Charleston. I can read the writing on the wall. Tomorrow the center of the tracks will be on Myrtle Beach.

Interestingly, here in Warner Robins GA (just south of Macon, 3 hours inland from Savannah and the coast) the northbound interstate is packed this morning, there are no hotel rooms available until you get north of Atlanta an hour away, and the entire middle GA area is out of bottled water.

All we have predicted here is a 60% chance of rain Monday.

Patrick said:

Ohio is nice this time of year.  Pack up your campers and head north, my parents have 16 acres of campground like yard on a river.  

Atlanta Motor Speedway has opened up it's facilities for anyone who wants to camp there for free and ride it out.

http://www.atlantamotorspeedway.com/media/news/ams-opens-camping-facilities-for-hurricane-irma-evacuees.html

just wait for Jose

T.J. said:

For the past three days, the models keep shifting this thing closer and closer to me, First it was Miami, then Savannah, now Charleston. I can read the writing on the wall. Tomorrow the center of the tracks will be on Myrtle Beach.

Looks like it's going to do a donut around Knoxville?

I have a friend who  lives in a coastal town near Jacksonville. She is heading for Valdosta Ga.  Relatives there.   Said she is glad she no longer owns a home.