The Time is Now to Prepare

Being a life long Floridian myself, hurricanes tend to just be the norm every few years. But Irma on the way, this my friends is not normal and something I hope all my fellow Floridians take serious. Being prepared for this is going to be important and enacting some evacuation game plans does need to be in the minds of everyone from South Florida to even my area outside of Gainesville, Florida in the North.

Boarding up homes, making sure you safe up before you head out is up to you but be warned if you hesitate and linger too long and this goes on the path they are suggesting, your valuables are not as important as yourself. Please make sure you keep your families safe, that is the most important factor in all of this. We may have to leave and come back to no home but its a better situation to come back with everyone safe and sound to view the fact that rebuilding needs to be done versus staying to protect your homes and you go end up going down with the house.

Pride Vs Harm

Lifers here in Florida have this inner pride thing when it comes to hurricanes. We boast to each other constantly that we have lived through numerous hurricanes with always a survivors mindset that it can be done over and over. Sometimes though mother nature can make you swallow that pride and I suspect this one is not the kind of storm you can just scream at and hunker down to have a nice little beer drinking hurricane party around. This one is looking like a beast and I seriously hope if you can get out, you will because I sense this is not the one to play with for anyone here in Florida.

Sticky Situation for Our Family, Not Sure What We Will Do

This past week hasn't been a great week for a damn hurricane to pop up personally. Bills had to get sent out right before this beast reared its ugly head so it appears we may have to end up a stuck set of fools to stay put and deal with this and pray. Luckily I believe our small town here is opening the doors to the local high school so we may take shelter there. We stay in a mobile home like most Floridians do and its taken years of beatings by hurricanes and I have a firm belief its not going to fair to well against this one if it travels to the North as predicted.

We are in prep mode this way, trying pretty hard to scrap in as much mining income and have a little help from my family at Visio lately to get us through this in case the aftermath is bad. Our pets sadly may have to be left behind because the shelters around us are already popping up with a NO PETS ALLOWED clause into their help. That is going to be a very hard one, we have 2 dogs we love like family and its a little heart breaking right now to even remotely think that we have to leave them possibly alone and bare this on their own with hopes they will be there when we return. Option B is some hope that we end up with enough to get out of the state even if we end up having to sleep in a car for a week or so to be safe, it's all kind of up in the air because this just happened to hit at a sucky ass moment financially as these things tend to do on you.

Every Last Person This Effects, You Are Well Concerned About By Our Family

Our family is really concerned here for everyone and we hope no one is harmed and this will end up being a situation we over prepare for and it ends up by a miracle being knocked down to a less chaotic storm. By the news though its not looking to good and we are already seeing police and firetrucks moving out and about a lot more with some of the electric company guys who are probably busting ass to prepare so the damages to their grids are less impacted.

If you're in a sticky situation like my family is right now unsure what to do about relocating and what to do. Please listen to your local authorities and follow their lead. Shelters will be around but I believe on this one they will want everyone out so take the help you can get to get out and do it in a timely manner as this unfolds on us here. Cryptocurrencies actually could be a huge blessing right now for those active with it, so hold less at the moment and worry more what you can do for your families safety.

No matter what happens, I will do my best to let everyone know the outcome and course we take. I have made a lot of great friendships here and already getting side worries and concerns from those friends but I want them to know that I am not going to be a fool and sit here if I can avoid it. This one I am not feeling is a hunker down and ride it out storm. Katrina and this one look awfully like cousins so we are all around Florida very wise to the fact that safety is going to be very important

PLEASE BE SAFE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN FLORIDA AND ALSO TO THE ISLANDS BELOW US WHO ARE ALREADY IN SERIOUS HARM'S WAY, YOU'RE IN OUR HEARTS AND WITH OUR HOPES!

~sflaherty

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