50 miles when in the path of a borderline cat 5 hurricane makes a massive difference. Ft. Myers and Sanibel are gone. Absolutely annihilated. Sarasota/Bradenton has a lot of damage, but overall not too much total destruction. I'm not going to lie.... seeing and hearing winds over 100mph scared the shit out of me. We didn't have time to evacuate even if we wanted to. Monday the storm was projected to hit north of Tampa. By Tuesday night we were in the Bullseye. Hotel rooms were full for hundreds of miles in all directions. That means driving as far as necessary. However, the majority of gas stations were out of gas. So the dilemma now becomes... do we leave and hope we find something before running out of gas or do we risk getting stranded, not knowing which way the storm will go? I had friends head south to North Port. Guess where the eye passed over? You just never know with these storms.
Not sure if I want to smell like salad.
I still have a small stack of 45s. Lol.
You would've hunted me to the far corners of the globe.