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Originally Posted by John_W
We're in a good spot. Pensacola gets one about every 5 years, and they're usually head on. They had 3 bad ones since 1995. St. Petersburg where I grew up, gets one about every 5 years, but they either glancing along the coast or cutting inland across the state. We might get the one the crosses over the state, but since were 50 miles or more from either coast, just like Irma when it came through here two years, the winds will diminish somewhat after they make landfall. Places like Naples, Fort Myers on the Gulf side and Miami, Palm Beach on the Atlantic are more vulnerable. It seems like Savannah and North Carolina gets more than most, the Outer Banks.
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I lived in St. Pete for 20 years, most of it on Coquina Key. There is some mystical quality about Tampa Bay which, although it looks great for a catastrophic hurricane to do big damage, somehow just deflects the storms damaging forces away