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In reply to the discussion: TO FLORIDA DU'ERS AND FRIENDS: Friday is too late. TOO LATE. Head by THURSDAY to high ground. [View all]GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And the 2 others that year lingered like Harvey and dropped huge amounts of rain. Plus several Cat 1 and 2s in Louisiana and one in the panhandle. I was even vacationing in New York when Irene hit!! Had to rent a car to drive back to Florida since all the flights were cancelled.
While I greatly respect your concern, your scenarios do not reflect the realities of Florida. We are in almost no way similar to Houston from everything to our drainage pattern to the ability of our soil to absorb water.
Doubtless it will be a bad wind event and people in subpar housing or right on the coast should leave ASAP. And Surge will be bad so anyone in the surge zone should leave including all the barrier islands. And people living on flood zones along estuaries and rivers should go And that will be and is being done by order of the state.
But there is no reason every person south of Okeechobee should leave, especially those on the coral ridge in South East Florida. The storm will be here 20 hours or so at the most. It will not flood that ridge. The glades...of course they will flood and staying in everglades city or flamingo will mean death. But even Naples has some areas high enough that they will not be flooded or affected by surge.
Thanks for your sincere concern.
Have a nice evening.