Reply #28: The NHC was still putting the storm in the Florida panhandle last nite [View All]

[markus]

when I called my mom after seeing Maddy McCall's post of a model aggregate map, which put the storm on it's current track.

Given the fact that the serious WX guys would want to see two model runs to confirm the change, it would have been irresponsible to call for evacuation before sometime today.

But I understand people have been leaving steadily today, on reversed (one-way) highways.

The poor people will do what poor people have always done in hurricane. Tack whatever wood they have to the windows, and hope for the best.

They tend to live in the more flood prone neighborhoods as well.

Again, Ripley, I'm not trying to be alarmist. But this is my natal place where I have family and a lot of friends and this looks and awful lot like The Big One, and it scares the hell out of me.