Friend's son with family and in-laws are leaving Miami area and headed to B'ham.

Today is the first Tuesday of the month and Walgreen's does a discount with the AARP card. I went there today about 10:30. The parking lot was almost full and lots and lots of shelves were depleted. Through chance, they have bottled water on sale this week. None in the store, including the back room.

I thought about buying ice cream, but then I considered that the power might go out in our part of Florida. If it did, I would be forced to eat all that ice cream so that it wouldn't go to waste (waist?). I restrained myself.

I will go to the beverage store later to stock up on beer, 'cause you know that there is lots of water in beer. That will get me through whatever will be coming our way this weekend.

We have a worker renovating our bathrooms and he said that he called
Home Depot to reserve some plywood (for another project) for Thursday;
and was told that couldn't happen - first come, first served. When they
run out, too bad.

My sister, nephew, neices, and 4 dogs are heading out on Thursday and flying to Atlanta. I'm not sure how long they plan on staying or if they just bought one way tickets.

I'm worried about it hitting Florida, but even worse, hitting the the northerly parts of the gulf coast, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, etc. So many horrible possibilities. I'm worried for you all.

I'm prepping for the aftermath. I stopped by Walmart; I won't be running out of ammunition. Buying an extra chainsaw blade tomorrow. Wife got canned goods today.

It's unbelievable! And already on the Outer Banks preparations/precautions are being taken.

And just when I thought I was wearing down DH for a move to Puerto Rico. He said THAT is why he's not moving.

I was really hoping this would head up the Atlantic and not really affect anyone. Evacuating Florida has to be worse than evacuating Texas.

Praying for the safety of all Floridians. I wish Irma would turn and go back out in the ocean.

No one needs this. It's so scary.

I just spent the weekend and more cleaning up in Rockport. If you live in FL, board up or use the corrugated metal "boards." Our boarded up condo was untouched. Unfortunately the unboarded condo above was totaled and leaked water into ours. We got killed by the latent water damage and had to remove everything.

Now get ready for Florida. If it hits as a Cat 5 storm, there won't be
anything left to recover. But if it hits as a 4 or less, they will need
lots of manpower to move stuff out of the roads. If you can volunteer and can go early to
work the streets, bring your own tire repair kits. There will be
roofing nails everywhere. Bring your own water, Poweraid, ice, boxes of
granola sticks, jerky, sun screen, a lawn chair, maybe an umbrella to
get out of the sun, and hand wipes to clean up. If you have access to a
Skid Steer or Bobcat with a root grapple attachment, bring that.

I couldn't live with the nagging fear of living somewhere that's only a few feet above sea level.

This storm makes me nervous :( If it goes east I have family in NC. But if it goes west there's a chance of those affected by Harvey taking in more weather they just can't handle right now. :(

We know people on the west coast who decided to leave.