Looks like Mother Nature sure is in a terrible mood! Milton is a Cat 5 with 180 MPH sustained winds. It should weaken tomorrow before making landfall as a 3. We will see. I hope it wobbles away from Tampa, but either way the coast is going to have some crazy storm surge.
We are very far inland, so no worries about storm surge for me. We will get some winds and rain, but we are as prepped as we can be. I will make a few loaves of bread tomorrow as all the stores were out today when I went in the afternoon.
The gas stations are all out as well. Hopefully a few trucks arrive overnight to refill. The highways headed north are 4 lanes of slowly moving traffic. They opened the left shoulder as a lane as well to move traffic. Millions of people need to evacuate from the coast - Tampa area. There are no available hotels.
Our county changed from having 3 shelters open starting tomorrow to 10 shelters open due to all the evacuations. The shelters are the schools. The kids have school tomorrow and they say it takes 2 hours to set up the shelters. They open at 5 or 6 PM tomorrow.
Aidan had Academic club after school, and we texted him to pick up dinner on his way home before heading to his guitar lesson. We were picking up Emily at school after Marching Band practice ended at 6 and then heading to Lady Lake to button up my FIL's house. Greg and Emily put down the hurricane shutters and I cleared out his fridge/freezer into a cooler in case he loses power. Got everything put away and secured. They also helped the neighbor put their hurricane shutters down as well. They were quite rusted as they had not been used in a while. We stopped at Carvers for dinner and got Emily home around 9PM. She had about an hour of homework to do.
The dog has had play time and lots of snuggles. He is not happy when everyone leaves him... which is a good thing I work from home!
Laundry is done. Dishes will be all done tomorrow night and I'll refill up water containers with water for drinking and the tub with water as well. We do have the full pool as well. We have a well, so no power means no water. We did grab a generator from my FIL, so we have that for the fridge and freezer if needed.
That's the Monday evening update.
4 comments:
Gosh your State has been in the eye of hurricanes so far this season for sure!! Glad you are all prepared as you can be...hope you can ride out the storm safely. It was 45 degrees early this morning with clear skies; we have a return to make a few miles away for drop off point and then hope to walk by the riverside on our way back...Take care hugs, julierose
I guess you are about as ready as you can be and you have plenty of water ready that is good. I hope the winds won't be too bad for you and that the storm doesn't come in as strong as the news has been saying they think it will
You sound prepared--though I thought I just heard a newcast with a message for Marion county to evacuate--???? It would be nice to really know just where this one will go--they always seem to go somewhere else than where everyone says they will go--but this one is a big wide one--so lots will feel it--Florida is not a big state --especially across it-- it's only 131 miles straight across from Tampa to Melbourne!!!!
stay safe--di
Thinking of you guys and all of Florida! Glad you live inland and are able to help out your FiL, too. Sounds like you are prepared!
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