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Originally Posted by Vezo, Part II
I made it to Hernando Beach. North Florida seems fine, however gas stations and dollar stores are very crowded. Pickups with five or six plastic fuel jugs across the bed!
Terry or Doug, I'm 7 miles away and I'm not sure the Frigg'It! is going back to HHI with second storm brewing right behind UMA!!!
Michael.
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Michael, Be careful about running in circles and wringing your hands too early because you'll be wore out by the time we figure out what this thing decides to do. A high altitude cool front passed over our part of the state today and that may "buffer" it off to the Bahamas but it's probably here too early. The islands in the Caribbean and Cuba will knock it down to a Cat 3 by the time it makes landfall in south Florida or the Keys. If it comes up the center of the state or even crosses from as close as Ft. Pierce we would only have 40 mile an hour winds by the time it gets to the west coast. As long as the eye is below us the winds blow off shore and push the Gulf of Mexico away from the west coast. They don't start pushing the Gulf toward us until the eye gets north of us, and only when the eye is in the Gulf. NOW, if the dang thing squeezes through the Straights of Florida and gets in the Gulf, is only when we need to be concerned. Typically, they wondered off toward northern Mexico, Texas or Louisiana because of the rotation of the earth dragging the tops westward, EXCEPT in the case of an approaching cool front this time of year that will steer them back toward the west coast of Florida - THAT IS WHEN WE FREAK OUT. Especially when the eye passes north of us and we get that wind driven tide that effects the shallow waters in the Big Bend area. See what Kmoose and NoBones say, they've been through a bunch of these too, but I think it's too early get excited. If you can't find a place in Brooksville or Spring Hill to drag your Seafari, you can pull it 50 miles down to my shop in Largo, but its' a higher elevation by 30' in Spring Hill.