The hardest thing in the world to do is sit in your living room and watch the horror and not be able to reach through the screen and change something.
In response to the models for 5 days out. Are they in any type of agreement on direction and intensity or are the models simply beginning to suggest conditions may be right for this storm to occur. I usually understand the models are based on the current conditions but with all the recent new data, from the past year to now, Are the different data more reliable now than in the past? Or is it less reliable than in the past. Its one thing to speculate on possible formation and another to prepare for a coming event. Even those of us who prepared with our knowledge from last year here in Florida, have had to use some of our supplies, or have donated some to those less fortunate and need to replenish. With the gas prices starting to climb as well as the newer product in the store beginning to climb in price, conservative consumerism is still important right now.