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[dani_meows]

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

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[immortalje]

*hugs*

I can't imagine what it must be like going through these. I mean, I only know them through TV and even then it feels kind of terrifying despite the fact that they're nothing more than abstract weather events for me. (The same with earthquakes). I don't even know what I would find worse: The waiting or when it's there.

I think the worst I've experienced is a heavy (for Germany standards) thunderstorm. It'll probably be a baby compared to a tropical storm, let alone a hurricane.

And I probably should stop babbling. I'm not even there and I'm nervous. Anyway, I'll keep my fingers crossed that you don't have to be evacuated and that everything works out ok.

*hugs some more*

[dani_meows]

*hugs back*

I've never experienced an earthquake either.

To me the waiting is worse.

When hurricane Charley was coming in 2004 it was supposed to be a cat 1 and it was expected to make landfall further North.

In a span of two hours it intensified to a category 4 and slammed into us with very little time to panic.

Just okay gathered water, gathered cats, made a shelter in the window free hallway... Oh listen to our weather man argue with the hurricane center on air, but he's right it's wobbling towards us...
Oh God it's here and then not long after oh good it's over let's see the damage.

This one's been a major storm that's been coming since Monday with a good deal of uncertainty. First it was unknown, then it was projected to hit Miami and the east coast, then Miami and up the center...

But it keeps shifting West. It's also a slower moving storm which means it'll last longer.

So far my zone hasn't been called for mandatory or voluntary evacuation and hopefully it stays that way.

Only the flood zone and mobile homes in my county have been ordered to evacuate.