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St Martin is getting pounded right now. Looks like the east coast of FL is now the most at risk.

That's a great link Earl. Thanks

It seems to me that if Lincoln shredded the constitution then it must be OK. I mean the old war monger is held up as an icon. He's like the fourth member of the Trinity. Why do you think they always look back to him as an example?

I left in 1995 , thought briefly about living in the Panhandle after retiring but now don't think that will even work. Hang in there

LMFAO....no state is worth that , plenty of other better places to live. That said I bet the wind slows down considerably before it hits FL.

Not sure what Florida's building codes are, but we're in a high wind area and houses are required to be designed for 120 mph gusts. The interesting thing is I was talking to my builder and he said to meet the wind loads requires more substantial structure and tie in to the foundation than the seismic loads.

You continue to impress.

Strongest models now have it curving out into the Atlantic by the time it gets to central and northern Florida, only hitting the eastern coastline with the outer arms. This is good news.

Seriously? Gees.

Lots of reasons to live on the coast. All these storms and such are just something you plug into your decision making process. My big part of that would not be the storms, it would be that their are typically just too many damned people. Give me a secluded lake in the woods over an ocean any day.

A few random comments.

One way of attaching metal storm shutters is to have have bolts or screws extending outward from the corners of the windows and halfway along the sides if it's a big window. The metal shutter is sized to fit and has corresponding holes which fit over the bolts and are held in place by hex or wing nuts. The attachment points are unobtrusive and don't spoil any architectural design but the shutters do make the house really dark.

Every area has its good and bad points. Why would anybody live in NE or KS or OK with tornadoes constantly coming along killing people, or Hawaii with those volcanoes or put up with those bitter cold winters (which happen every single year like clockwork) in the Dakotas or Minnesota? Folks go for the good and adapt to and overcome the bad. Idaho is a great place most all year long - it doesn't get too awful cold but does get kind of hot in summer. Boise in particular was rated something like the 2nd safest place in the nation for weather disasters (as long as the Yellowstone caldera doesn't blow), but this morning the smoke from fires is so thick you can’t see 300 yards and it stings your eyes to be outside for any length of time. Oh well, at least it’s not a hurricane or tornado.

Probably the toughest codes in the country with regard to wind, they learned their lesson from Andrew

Dropped on your head at birth? Ever think that some people have lived their entire lives there and love living there. FL is not for everyone especially with big hurricanes bearing down on you but the rest of the time it is a very special place. I have a lot of fond memories from living there .

To each his own. I've been to Florida a couple times. I saw nothing that interested me. Same thing for Texas. Eastern Tennessee, Western North or South Carolina or northern Georgia is about as far as I want to go. I mean the highest point in Florida is 345 feet.

Wouldn't have expected anything less from you.

Just saw some videos from the Virgin Islands. Did not look good. Not good at all. And now they're saying this is definitely bigger and badder than Andrew. Oh man!

Be ready guys 'cos this one could require the extra diligence. I say get out if you're able.

Godspeed and please let the rest of us know what you need!

Yet you live in Ohio Plenty of Ohio Residents on Floridas west coast don't agree with you.

I could handle Ohio, though too hot for me in the summer

Some of it is what you are used to. A woman grows up in an abusive household, sometimes ends up marrying into another.

Common saying up here, we can live with the snow, we don't have floods or hurricanes. Snow can collapse a building, but it is out of neglect, or under built.


What I find F'd up is the people who say the stores ran out of plywood. I keep my snow shovel in summer, and rake in the winter. Reading above about shutters. That seems the way to go. But we forgot about them. Maybe don't want to be reminded of it. Like looking at a corpse in the yard.

There was also a time, people didn't build in flood plains. But communites have sprawled.

With my job, I could live where I want. LIke many, family plays into it a bit, but the heat is enough to keep me out. I used to work in mills. But they paid me to be in biblical heat.



Maybe man was meant to migrate with the seasons.

sometimes a statement gets made on the internet that might hold a grain of truth.

Been through a few, don't like it too much. I went through Cleveland Tex this A M on way to deer lease. Crap piled in ditches, just like where I work. Lots of people hurt by Harvey!!

Dillonbuck, the hurricane shutters like mine have to be manually put up and manually taken down. They are corrugated panels. The upper part of the panel fits in a track approx. 2 1/4" wide. The bottom of the panels are usually attached 1 of 2 ways - with threaded bolts that you slide down a track to correspond with holes punched in the corners of each panel, or a 90 degree piece of angle iron attached to the wall with intermittent threaded bolts already set with spacing to correspond with the distance between the holes on the bottom corners of the panels.

The nicest ones are permanently attached to the block walls and open and close like an accordion. Commonly called accordion shutters.