Anybody else live in Florida and riding out hurricane Idalia?

@Pretzel Good deal. 🙂 They do say that September is the most active month for the hurricane season.

@Musicman yeah, and that's been our experience up here

@Pretzel Do you stay for hurricanes or do you leave?

@Musicman well in the panhandle you have a transitional landscape. we actuall have way more 10 feet or more above sea level. I get flooding but it's from the sewers backing up.

same thing with the winds - we get plenty of it but it dies down rapidly as you get further from the coast. still strong enough to blow down trees sitting in wet soil and we have lost a few shingles - but not anything like being at the coast.

so we stay put, we're ready for 72 hours of no services.

we were without power for 12 days when Ivan hit - and it was super hot

@Pretzel God bless you 🙏 We usually leave town. We stayed this time though, but we were prepared for a power outage. 🙂

@Musicman the key to that is getting the heck out of dodge before everybody else gets the bright idea. when Ivan came and they said it was going to be a back braker I strongly suggested (I hate the word beg) that he get out of town - he ended up in Mississippi and he could have ridden it out - the house didn't sustain damage - but I had to be at work for the duration so I slept better knowing where he was.

@Pretzel We usually leave a few days ahead. Like I said, this time we stayed. If the power would have gone out we have a onboard generator with three rooftop air conditioners and a residential refrigerator in the kitchen. We would have been very comfortable.

@Musicman shoot - you could sell the house and live in there!! :)