Your local government officials must deal with the what is now factor as well. Wishing or hoping will not save lives. Action based on sound information does.
There are a lot of folks to move out of harms way in a short period of time. Nursing homes, mobile homes, trailers, low lying flood prone houses. YOu name it. I'm glad to see the plans being put into force as we speak.

If it does come in at Tampa Bay, we'll see why it's calle a bay, with all the flooding.
I don't see the storm going West at all. Not with the set up the way it is.