I am in the path. On the the west coast north of Tampa. Today I am boarding up the house with plywood sheets. Have done all my other prep work. Filled cars. I’m expecting a pretty strong blow.
I’ll keep you all posted.
I am about 25 or 30 miles to the NE of OG and some 15 ish miles ENE of CyBer, close anyway.
Best of luck my friend. CAT III now, just coming across west end of Cuba with a fully formed eye now. I am expecting a sadly epic disaster for the Tampa Bay area. Off to find some ice I hope, then trashing everything in my fridge that I am not taking with me. Expecting no power at my place for at LEAST 10 days, if it still exists.
I spent yesterday afternoon
making two adorable young ladies I know leave their home in Homosassa, by telling them the stories of an acquaintance fishing bodies out of the Mississippi river post Katrina, and they are now enroute to a relatives in WV. CAT 2 or 3 eyewalls full of Tornadoes KILL, even CAT I. Storm surges KILL, and are maybe the scariest natural force I have ever witnessed. Luckily I am too far inland to worry about that.
Probably at least a week without cell service.
I truly hope to God I am wrong. I have been there and done this too many times and I had hoped I was done. I guess not.