Evacuation level A
News is sounding better -- may not need to worry.
That's bad...but in a way it's good, because if they think the storm is headed anyway near us, you'll be the first to be given evac orders.
Since you're in the first evac zone, you can probably wait for the orders, and just be prepared to get out once you get them.
You can go to a shelter. Roads are going to be messy with this one because if it heads this way, they're going to have already issued evac orders for the communities south of us and the roads are going to be bad.
We were talking the other day and if we ever had to evacuate and were trying to get out, I think I'd avoid the interstates at all costs.
Better to head over the Bayside Bridge and up McMullen Booth, then up 19 to Spring Hill and over on 50 inland. Or maybe we'd take the bridge, but get off on the other side and take the Veterans' Expressway north.
From watching the traffic in Houston during Rita, the Interstate is not the way I'd want to travel.
NautiNurse prebooks a motel room in Brandon in case she has to leave. Maybe she could tell you more about evac routes.
Heard on the radio shortly before the presser that a lot of the local hotels around Tampa Bay have already filled up with evacuees from SW FL.