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I'm a Floridian and I'm scared.

I remember what Charlie did. How it swerved at the last second angled straight towards Punta Gorda and went from a minor storm to a big one.

I remember the eye. The terror of being in the hallway with mattresses bracing each side and thanking God we'd just gotten a new roof.

And that it zoomed across so quickly the projected storm surge didn't happen. We would have been on that brand new roof m

I remember everywhere around me being destroyed.

And this one is slower and more dangerous.

I'm frightened. I live in Tampa now. We're higher up. But I'm afraid.

My family lives in Hollywood, Miami, Fort Pierce, and Daytona Beach areas. All coastal low lying areas on the east coast of my beloved state.

And I'm scared and I want to hide under the bed until it's over.

(no subject)

Irma is veering more to the west than this morning.

https://patch.com/florida/southtampa/hurricane-irma-tampa-bay-area-remains-cone

I'm becoming more afraid.

I keep reassuring myself that it won't be like Charley, when we were pretty much blindsided and suddenly it was veering towards us at high speed.

I'm also taking comfort that we aren't in an evacuation zone at the moment.

And we have food and some water with more containers.



Because I looked it up earlier: Hurricane Charley on Wikipeda:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Charley