I have lived in Florida for 50 years and this hurricane is the first that has [View all]

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really scared me. And while we are in the cone, we are at the upper edge of it on the east coast, ergo, what ever we get will be mild compared to what the Gulf Coast will experience, and they have just begun the clean up from Helene. God help them.

Hurricane Matthew hit here in 2016. As storms go,it wasn't anything near the strength of Milton, and yet it completely flooded our little city to the point that the main street by the bay was a part of the bay for a while until the water levels fell to more normal levels. There was nothing to show where the street ended and the bay began... not even the sea wall. And the waters from the river on the other side of town mixed with the waters from the bay.

The winds were strong enough to blow three trees down on my house whose roots could no longer hold on to the over saturated ground.

And Matthew was next to nothing compared to this storm. We will get plenty of wind and rain here, but nothing like St. Peterburg, Tampa, Orlando, and Cape Canaveral will see. Keep them in your thoughts as they go through the storm and the aftermath. The home insurance business in Florida is dreadful and prohibitably expensive. Many will be uninsured and lose everything.

After securing the outside of my house in the morning as best as I can, I'll be taking my invalid husband to the big city 40 miles north where my son has an apartment to wait out the storm. We will be okay...