Thanks Spencer. What's it like in Gainesville? I'm very safe. I'm in Canada - just the house is in Key West. Our tenant fled unhappily to Atlanta. He can only stay a couple more days in Atlanta and wants to go back to Key West -- but even if the house is fine, there is no power. The airport is closed. Latest word from Miami Herald is that Key West was somewhat spared the worst.
It's not too bad yet, but it doesn't fully arrive for another 5 hours. Its windy and the sliding glass door is shaking in a really unnerving way but the power is still on. I'm not that worried since we're fairly inland though. How's Canada btw? Was this an evacuation or just lucky timing?
Just got/getting through the thick of it and still have power. Woot! Our local weather man (who is the shit, walked us through as much bad weather as I remember here in FL) is saying Irma has finally spun out. She's just spreading her (hurricane force) winds at this point. The Villages should be hit around 4ish. Should hit you much later IIRC. How you holding up? Our pool is spilling over and the patio is flooded, but all good inside.
Everything went over really well, power even stayed on surprisingly.
Everything went way better than expected, our apartment never even lost power.
Good, I'm glad for you and your town. It's lost some of its intensity. I still can't get any feet on the ground in our neighbourhood in Key West. I saw some YouTube videos of people driving around shooting street scenes. Still no drinkable water, no power, no cell service, no airport, and no lifting of the evacuation for Key West. They're cleaning the highway so the crews can get in and fix everything. Things are really bad in Big Pine and Marathon.