Thursday update
Oct. 6th, 2016 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyAlright, let's do this update. I had one planned this morning but the 5am update was pretty spiffy and then the 8am one tanked it and made things look like a giant case of "ohmygod, we're all gonna die!"
The later updates kind of negated that one really bad one but still, I figured I'd wait and see if there was a more concrete outlook. Well, as much as one can be when discussing a force of nature, that is.
Looks like we'll be getting the storm late Friday/early Saturday (1am Saturday is currently projecting the highest winds but they only showed up to 8am) and then it'll be hanging out all day Saturday. JOY. But as a Cat 1 and not a Cat 2, and definitely *knocks on wood* as a Cat 4.
The flipside to this is that the storm looks like it's coming closer inland than originally anticipated. But it also seems to be a storm that does not do well over land and since Florida's ready to put up a fight, I guess we'll see how it goes.
On a related note: one of the local stations put up a list of stores/pharmacies/whatever that are still open. It also included the ones that were closed, and work was on that list. And people were going in hardcore over the closing. To be fair, I do think that the person who dropped off a prescription on Tuesday at 9:30 should have been warned that the store was closing for the rest of the week. But everyone else? Really? Tuesday was when the evacuation notice went out, so it's nice that hell froze and work actually gave their employees time to get the hell out of dodge. Geez.
Kay. I should probably resume cleaning a bit. Or something.
The later updates kind of negated that one really bad one but still, I figured I'd wait and see if there was a more concrete outlook. Well, as much as one can be when discussing a force of nature, that is.
Looks like we'll be getting the storm late Friday/early Saturday (1am Saturday is currently projecting the highest winds but they only showed up to 8am) and then it'll be hanging out all day Saturday. JOY. But as a Cat 1 and not a Cat 2, and definitely *knocks on wood* as a Cat 4.
The flipside to this is that the storm looks like it's coming closer inland than originally anticipated. But it also seems to be a storm that does not do well over land and since Florida's ready to put up a fight, I guess we'll see how it goes.
On a related note: one of the local stations put up a list of stores/pharmacies/whatever that are still open. It also included the ones that were closed, and work was on that list. And people were going in hardcore over the closing. To be fair, I do think that the person who dropped off a prescription on Tuesday at 9:30 should have been warned that the store was closing for the rest of the week. But everyone else? Really? Tuesday was when the evacuation notice went out, so it's nice that hell froze and work actually gave their employees time to get the hell out of dodge. Geez.
Kay. I should probably resume cleaning a bit. Or something.
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Date: 2016-10-07 12:21 am (UTC)Stay safe, friend. Are you sticking it out? Or waiting for everyone else to flee first?
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Date: 2016-10-07 12:51 am (UTC)At the moment, it looks like we're sticking it out. Widget is looking to ride it out with either of his parents, but the dog's not really up for travel so here I stay.
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Date: 2016-10-07 12:54 am (UTC)Well, good luck! I am ever hopeful that the storm will weaken before it gets to your neck o' the woods *crosses fingers*
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Date: 2016-10-07 01:39 am (UTC)It's still looking good for being weaker when we get it, though one of the local weather guys is saying that storm surge wise, it'll be worse than Hugo. Saying anything around here is worse than Hugo is basically taking your life into your own hands, so the comments have been vicious. It's clearly time to break out the alcohol.