We are licking our wounds from Helene. Admittedly, we are 99% better off than NC, but we were 60 miles from Helene's landfall, on the East side. Our property looks like a war zone (lost at least a dozen huge trees). We slept in our closet (our "strong room") when Helene made landfall, and went six days without power. Our neighbor has a vacation property next door, but lives fulltime in St. Pete; his neighborhood had record flooding, and he's told us that the majority of his neighbors' curbs are currently covered with drywall, carpet, kitchen cabinets, and furniture destroyed by the seawater. Now this ... and Milton looks to be threatening our firstborn as well, in Ft. Myers. This is a repeat of the crisis she had during Ian; evacuating to us wasn't the best option then, and she headed to the East coast, but what about now? Does she fight 146 hours of traffic through Tampa to get to us this time, or does she ride it out down there? Argh.