[kittygilchrist]

Not worried.
Forecast update: Tropical Storm Erika 2015 projected path shifts westward | AL.com
Path update.
Where oh where will she land, if Fl is even hit.
This is not even a hurricane.
I am a Floridian, and know We in the center of state are unlikely to have major problems from this.
Y'all prepare.
I AM concerned aboutmy brother's house on the waterfront at Crystal River.

[CT514s]

All great suggestions ! After living in Naples during Charlie and Wilma I also learned to fill plastic baggies or containers with ice cubes several days prior to keep in the freezer. If we lose power this will help to keep your freezer cold and hopefully lose less.

[njbchbum]

Originally Posted by CT514s

All great suggestions ! After living in Naples during Charlie and Wilma I also learned to fill plastic baggies or containers with ice cubes several days prior to keep in the freezer. If we lose power this will help to keep your freezer cold and hopefully lose less.

And those bagged cubes are always available for cocktails!

[Shadow8IA]

We own a home in The Villages but aren't there now. We have nothing outside that can blow away. Other than having neighbors check for downed trees, broken windows from flying objects and the food in the ref/freezer is there anything we should be having checked?

[john1953]

We have a really nice and quiet generator.Its noise level is below the level of a normal conversation.It will run our refrigerator some lights an a portable AC unit.A tank of gas runs for 19 hours straight.Its a Yamaha EF3000ISEB.Use to have this in our RV.It really is a life saver.

[asianthree]

Up north we are use to power outages for up to 10 days, dead of winter or hot summer. We use a contractor grade generator. I can run most of the house including cable. Our lights are always on. We have emergency bag ready for on the fly evac just in case

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by asianthree

Up north we are use to power outages for up to 10 days, dead of winter or hot summer. We use a contractor grade generator. I can run most of the house including cable. Our lights are always on. We have emergency bag ready for on the fly evac just in case

Generators are really useful. We had a "whole house" generator before we moved to TV. It ran on natural gas. Unfortunately there are no gas lines south of 466A so we left it behind.