I had a house in Key Largo for 14 years and people there worried less about hurricanes than they do here. Irma was a Cat 5, as bad as they get, the eye passed very close to The Villages and yet it was just a bad storm here. There is an extremely high probability that Irma will be the worst hurricane that this area will see in any of our lifetimes. In Key Largo we had good reasons to worry. There was no land to weaken the hurricanes and the ocean storm surge could be as bad or worse than the winds. So relax, grab a good book and expect some wind and rain.
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