Are you in the path of Hurricane Idalia's wrath?

NC North of Fayetteville – - rain and some wind.

North Georgia here…mostly heavy rain. Predicted to be gone by Thursday. It’s supposed to be worse out near the coast.

No.

Almost: I’m only about 2,000 miles from the closest edge of its predicted path. ;-o

I loved Hilary’s visit.
We got about 3½” of much-needed rain, with nothing more than some very occasional breezes.

Just after Hilary left us for Nevada, one of my wife’s cats passed away.
She asked me if we could bury her in my backyard.
Since the soil had been saturated to a depth of about 2 feet by the Clintonian cyclone, I was happy to honor her request.

Only slightly. Most of the storm is cutting across central and south Georgia, but we in Atlanta are going to get showers and some thunderstorms as the outer bands pass over.

But here, there is no expectation of serious winds or flooding, just a bunch of rain (which we need).

It is just a bit of rain and wind. Man up.

Yep. Still going here.

Wilmington NC – just on the edge of the cone. We got some rain and some wind but nothing serious. No, we didn’t evacuate. This storm was hitting us from over the land where it loses a lot of energy. We had winds that were supposed to be upwards of 35 mph which isn’t much as big storms go and we were only supposed to get 1–2” of rain. We didn’t even have the lights flicker.

I saw Ron DeSantis on the news this morning (not sure when the video was from, probably from Wednesday), saying this is the worst Florida got hit since 1890. Really? That seems hard to believe.

@jca2 worst up there in the Big Bend region. Usually the hurricanes hit much further south (Key West, etc.) or much further West – closer to Alabama and Mississippi.

So he is probably telling the truth for that region, but not for the whole state.

But then, he is a politician, so immediately suspect in his explanations.

I watched DeSantis and the other officials as the storm was approaching. National news often cuts off all of the press conferences and their reporters sum up what they think is important or will create ratings. Here in Florida I have more opportunity to see the full address to the people in the state.

Desantis definitely was clear the worst storm to hit in that part of Florida. Officials get nervous that people in regions that usually never get hit with severe storms won’t take it seriously enough. They also emphasized that there are a lot of new people who have moved to Florida the last few years and were kind of saying to them you need to really pay attention to what we tell you.

DeSantis was great pre-storm; all Florida governors are. Jimmy Patronis CFO for Florida Disaster was great too. Jimmy actually has a great personality and he’s serious and funny all at once. He has a heavy Southern accent and I get a real kick out of him. Florida knows the drill for storms, so a lot of it just runs like clockwork. One annoying thing is the various officials who spoke during the press conferences, they all go on and on about how great the governor is, like a big suck up and promotion. It just gets to be a little over the top after a while.

DeSantis really emphasized more than usual to only evacuate inland, he emphasized seven to ten miles, don’t go multiple counties. We always say that in Florida, but he went on about it more this time, which I was glad about. The national news says things like, “Pinellas County is evacuating” and people who are new here think they need to go way inland, but Pinellas county is only evacuating near the water.

Here is Jimmy starting minute 11:30.

He sounds like a country-boy neighbor giving friendly advice. He tells people “don’t be stubborn” and to take photos of their house inside and out before the storm, and other friendly advice. At the end of his talk he tells us to call him or twitter if we need help.

@elbanditoroso That is how I understood the comment as well.