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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
Above advise is right on. The media is talking about this on and on, scares people to death.
This place was engineered to move water as necessary to prevent flooding.
Follow basic precautions, stay indoors during the worst of it and you will be fine.
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Just like they scare people to death about gators... they make people believe they could be snapped up at any minute to never be seen again. Could it happen, it could.. but to live life like that, constant fear, not a way to live. Lived with hurricanes our entire lives. Have always been aware, guarded, and never a joke to us, but frankly since we moved this far north and central, have not really gone into this kind of "clean out the stores" type of panic mode at all. In south Florida we did have to close hurricane shutters, and many people had to board up, but here Charlie was the worst we've experienced. It was a big one, but no lives lost here, just a mess that took more than a couple weeks to clean up, haul away, etc. The one thing that struck me most after Charley, I was on 466 to see if any gas stations might have possibly opened once it passed, and that's when I saw the HUGE overhead lights that literally hung across 466 intersection from enormous "arm like" structures... all laying like a pile of junk in a junk yard all over the 4 lanes of 466. Later that week after, drove past the huge tree not far from the movie theater in Spanish Springs.... the roots were so big I could not even estimate, but when the tree toppled and all those roots came up, it took out many sections of sidewalk... stunning site. We have some gigantic live oaks here, Charlie took out quite a few.