As I mentioned go to Disney, your route is clear than travel north. A few Sink holes are starting to open in SC, some roads still not cleared to Greenville. Power was restored to 80,000 late Sunday, but has been suspended for 20 hours to continue to return more homes to the grid.

NC home north of Wilmington, has no damage, but roads are damaged and not safe to drive a car, into neighborhood, and unsure when repair can start.

Going north isn’t always a good thing.

Excellent advice.

We're in a double-wide/modular. We're also 3 blocks from the country club and less than a mile from the golf cart bridge. If push comes to shove and we need to hunker down somewhere more sturdy, we could walk up the hill, or take the cart over the bridge and hole up in the public rest room til the storm blows over.

And how many people fit in that public restroom?:oops:

As a precaution, I would recommend evacuating if you are in a manufactured home. In short, just for your safety.

I am curious what the wind gusts were here during Ian? Anyone remember?

Was wondering the same. Was Ian highest wind speeds here? What was the damage like?

Ian (2022): In TV winds were in the 30s and gusts were in the 50s with 3" of rain.

Irma (2017): In TV winds were in the 40s and gusts in the 60s with 10" of rain.

For Ian I didn't hear of any major home damage in TV but there were many scattered palm branches and downed trees. Many on this site were saying we dodged one because it veered away from us.

LOL. LOL, THIS is where everyone goes to "evacuate" ! If you are thinking of evacuating, don't go to Disney area, if you heard on TV today 16,000 (THOUSAND) rooms have already been reserved by those coming from the Gulf coast.

Shelter locations, looks like Villages Elementary could be closest to the Villages.

Yeah, people used to evacuate to Ashville, NC too. Let's not assume anything, use common sense.

I was wondering why it seemed everyone was kind of forgetting about Irma in 2017. That was our first big storm (other than the tornado in 2007 which spared our place while we were up north). Irma was very scary but we came through it pretty much unscathed. Maybe 3 hours loss of power and alot of wind and rain. We lost a few shingles and our 7 Cypress trees but otherwise we were good. We will prepare appropriately for this one. Everyone should. Then we will hunker down and keep each other safe and sound. Same wish to all.

Charley back in maybe 2004 (?) was the "worst" I remember, and even then, certainly not anything that made us want to leave (like we did many times where we grew up in Southeast Florida.

I'm a little more concerned about this one (I've never left for a hurricane in the 10+ years I've been here) simply because the NWS is now saying this will probably be the costliest hurricane in FL history. 100 mph winds and already saturated ground means that trees are going to come down. I've got 2 huge live oaks near my house that the owners don't bother trimming or taking care of. I've got pets to think about so we're considering heading out. I have a safe place to go that doesn't require getting on 75, so that's makes the decision a little easier.

As for power, during Ian mine blinked once and then a few hours later again but stayed on both times. For Idalia (2023) no power lost as well as Helene just the previous week, though my sister's house lost power 10 minutes away from my house. This will be my 4th Florida hurricane since moving here in May 2022. Experienced 2 in Hawaii, the 1982 one was really wet and the 1992 one was like nothing on Oahu but Kauai got battered both times. When you watch the 1st Jurassic Park that's the hurricane weather going on.