The last big hurricanes we had in our area...(central Florida) was 7 whole years ago....and we had 4 in a matter of a few weeks....
..there were blue tarps on homes (from all the roof damage) in our county for over a year!!....
..we evacuated twice....rode out the other two.
Right now.....as we are about 8 to 10 miles from the ocean....(as a crow flies)....we're getting some moderately heavy wind and rain.....actually it's been fairly windy all day...
..my husband & I took an early morning walk (82 degrees but a nice wind)
Watching all this gives us cautious prep & heads up... in case of next time....
..hurricane season is not over!
We have had rain and wind all day, and some parts of town have lost power, but we have not. It has that feeder band feel. As much as my prayers are with people are in the path, I’m very relieved we are not. Our first 2 years here convinced me hurricanes were not that much fun.
That year of all those storms in Florida was insane!
This could get real ugly in PA and NJ - it's been a long time since we had a big blow (Isabel in 2003 I think is the last one) and there are a lot of big trees with roots in saturated soil just waiting to come down on power lines, roads, cars and houses. I'm heading out to the far NW suburbs for this one.