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Old Sep 7, 2017 | 07:59 PM
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Alright Florida Crew:::

S. Florida members leave if you can. If not, hunker down and be safe. We are staying in Moore Haven at the Father in Law's and Jason's family will be with us.

Be safe and hope to see everyone in Palatka in November.


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Old Sep 7, 2017 | 09:28 PM
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I'm stuck here, been working, got dogs and nowhere to go that's safe anyway. Will be hunkering down.

Good luck to all of us.
 
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Old Sep 7, 2017 | 09:48 PM
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Good luck. Hope you guys come out of it alright. It looks like we are up next after you.
 
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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 06:52 AM
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We are retired so when this monster first headed our way we made evac plans. Tuesday we loaded our motor home, secured the house, and came north to Cottondale Florida. We trailered the Harley and my DW followed in our car. We are camped up here and will sit it out and just take a small vacation.

As of this morning (Friday) the track of Irma looks like it will be more up the center of the state. I would encourage anyone that has stayed through today to seek out a shelter, don't hunker down in your own home. If you are starting to consider leaving be prepared to spend some very long hours now in stop and go interstate traffic getting out of Florida. There are tons of gas stations closed as you come north on I-75. We keep seeing Florida Troopers escorting groups of gasoline tankers on I-10 heading toward I-75.

Good luck to everyone this weekend.
 
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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 04:15 PM
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Riding this one out. I'd rather get killed in my own home as opposed to being killed stuck on an interstate with nowhere to go. Hope everybody stays safe!!
 
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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 04:43 PM
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Waited to see what Irma was going to do. Looks like we'll stay at home in DB. While serious does not look as bad now as it could have been. Hoping to make plans for Palatka so we can meet some of the awesome Fl Crew! Be safe all!
 
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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 07:47 PM
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Winds finishing

am getting readi to putt storme shutters

strong winds wynds at beeach

need beer

up ladder putting up shuttters on windows

were is my drill pu to out shutters up drill on




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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 09:08 PM
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My brother, up in Spring Hill, has deemed it unsafe to leave so he is staying put. Prayers to all of you who have decided to stay and know that there are many of us hoping you all remain safe. May God Bless you all and keep you safe.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2017 | 06:40 AM
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Originally Posted by J F GO
My brother, up in Spring Hill, has deemed it unsafe to leave so he is staying put. Prayers to all of you who have decided to stay and know that there are many of us hoping you all remain safe. May God Bless you all and keep you safe.
For what it is worth my friend, the gentleman staying with me and a few others I know of I understand are finding it a better risk to stay put than to try to leave.

This gentleman's car has over 200,000 miles on it and he is not sure it will make it out of the state. And a few other people were thinking that the roads are so heavily bogged down and with the severe back up in the Wildwood (where I 75 & I-95 come together) it is better not to die out on the road.

This whole mass exodus is surreal.

The shelters in the Miami-Dade area are jam packed some to a point they are not accepting any more people and are directing them to other locations.

The shelters themselves are a good place for people to go from the point of safety. But in reality it is also incredibly unpleasant with hundreds of people coughing, sneezing, who knows what medication they are on or diseases they are carrying because we have a lot of the homeless.

Pets are allowed if they are in a cage but they need to go to the bathroom and they will be barking, what happens if the source system stops working because the the stations are knocked out.

You obviously will have a lot of weirdos. Will be be enough electrical outlets for CPAP's, etc.

If you actually mentally picture yourself in one of these shelters, yes it can save your life, but what you have to put up with seems to be ever so unpleasant.

I am not knocking them. It is great we have them. But it must be ever so unpleasant.

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Old Sep 9, 2017 | 11:37 AM
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As of now I'll be staying put at home. We'll see how things progress through Sunday morning and make a final decision then.
 
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