Btw Red, where abouts in the sunshine state are you in?
I am on the east coast towards the southern tip, very close to the coast. The storm started to make landfall in Fort Myers which is near the southern tip but on the west coast. That places the storm eye at about ~110 miles away at it's closest point to us. We had it very easy, only some gusty winds. The damage the news is showing is eerily similar to Andrew. More spread out, less poluplated area and probably won't touch the monitary damage of Andrew but indications are the death toll may easily dwarf Andrew :-( These people were not prepared. They havn't had a hurricane in ~80 years and the projected path was very wrong so many did not evacuate. Furthermore alot of trailer parks and elderly communities were in the path..
Not good :-(
@KennyR
Luckily for SC it was
only a category one hurricane when it hit them. That's bad enough for sure, but won't compare to the category 4 carnage in FL.
