@1or2Musicians - they really should have. It’s just such a hit to Gainesville to lose that home game. I can see why UF (or even LSU) didn’t want to change it too easily. But yeah, it made it tough on lots of people trying to get here and get out of here. Somebody mentioned to me that the last time this happened (UF canceled a game with an SEC opponent) was right after 9-11. (?).
I don’t know why, but that made me think of the “Waffle House Index” 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
Stay safe people!
Last year the LSU-South Carolina game got moved to BR due to flooding. And LSU played a “home” in Tempe after Katrina. And that same year played Tennessee on a Monday after Rita. 2005 was interesting.
Nobody wants to move and lose revenue and the home game experience. But sometimes it needs to happen.
And they’re closed on 95 from Titusville to Ft. Pierce.
Prayers from SC to Florida. We’re playing the waiting game too.
prayers for everyone in coastal SC @carolinamom2boys!
Embry Riddle is evacuating their entire flight line to Alabama
Just watching this, it could be terrible. This could be like Hurricane Andrew all over. And the projections that it is sweeping right along the coast for so long, just terrible luck. We can only hope that something magically happens that keeps it offshore. Fingers crossed for everyone!
Andrew was much different. It was a much tinier storm - but incredibly powerful. It completely flattened southern Dade County but that was the only area affected. There was no storm surge to speak of either (and no "beach towns down that way.) Matthew is huge and will affect millions more people then Andrew did.
My mom just texted me. Hurricane warning dropped for Broward. She just took the dog out for a minute. Said it was just raining and not very windy.
Don’t forget what Andrew did after it entered the Gulf and turned north and hit Pensacola/south Alabama/Mississippi - there were beach towns and storm surge. I lived in Miami during Andrew and ended up on one of the last planes out, evacuated with two cats to my parents in Pensacola (no one believed me that the storm would track straight!) and then was on the last plane out of the panhandle when Andrew turned. I couldn’t get back to Miami because the airport was so damaged, made it to Boca (after the airline lost my cats!) where a cousin picked me up and then borrowed Grandparents car to make it home. Luckily I had a home to go back to but learned one should not leave a car parked a block from Biscayne Bay during a hurricane!
Matthew is very much like Andrew as that it will likely hit FL TWICE! Some models are showing it may even hit three times!
True story - I was an itinerant teacher in Dade County and could not contact one student after the storm. I called and called and called (they lived near Homestead) after three days the mom answered the phone I was so happy! I said “I’m so happy you are ok”, she was laughing a crying hysterically. I finally learned that they had totally lost their house and has run to a neighbor’s house during the middle of the storm but that house blew away around them. They had just come back to go through the rubble of their home to try to find pictures and anything that could be salvaged when they heard the phone (land line) ringing under the rubble, they dug down and found the phone and could not believe it worked and that I was calling.
If it hits south Florida again it will be in a very weakened state - according to what I’ve heard on TV.
Was Andrew a Cat 4 when it hit the panhandle?
I still think this is a very different storm then Andrew was.
The storm is going a little north, so Miami is just getting rain, Ft. Lauderdale might not take a direct hit, but the Space Coast (Melbourne to Daytona) and the the First Coast All the way to the GA border, will get slammed. Jacksonville is expected to flood in several places, including downtown.
We got a notification tonight that all Hilton Head Fire and Rescue personnel will be evacuated at 7 a.m. tomorrow. I hope that everyone is already well inland.
@emilybee it was a Cat 4 but weakened to a Cat 3 before landfall on the Gulf Coast - a Cat 3 can still do serious damage.
“Don’t forget what Andrew did after it entered the Gulf and turned north and hit Pensacola/south Alabama/Mississippi - there were beach towns and storm surge. I lived in Miami during Andrew and ended up on one of the last planes out, evacuated with two cats to my parents in Pensacola (no one believed me that the storm would track straight!) and then was on the last plane out of the panhandle when Andrew turned”
Hey, I wonder if I was on your airplane out of Miami, @3scoutsmom. I was a flight engineer on American Airlines at the time, and supposedly we flew the last plane out before they shut the airport. I don’t remember where we were going, though.
I was thinking that this hurricane would be much like Andrew in regards to destruction, particularly of Florida, and loss of life. However, apparently “only” 65 people died during Andrew, and almost 300 people have already died in Haiti alone, as far as Matthew goes. Sadly, this is already far worse.
Building standards are much different now so some houses and roofs are stronger. I hope.
@busdriver11 maybe? I had a really new color laptop and was running NWC software, flight crew actually came to look at my PC before take off!
I don’t remember that, 3scoutsmom, but I do remember us hustling like crazy to get out in time. At least we made it out. Hoping everyone who is in the path of the storm stays safe, too.
Oh, I know a Cat 3 is very dangerous! It’s still a very different storm then Matthew. Andrew was catastrophic devastation in south Dade. Everything was completely destroyed. The wind did all the destruction there.
Matthew destruction is going to be from the storm surge. The eye might not ever come on shore.