ok… read more in the paper and I think I should stay home and not drive over to WDW on Tuesday as planned
McCann said most of the tracking models have it heading over the western side of Florida, but that doesn’t mean Orlando is out of danger.
“That would put Central Florida on the right side of the storm which tends to be where you get the heaviest rain, the strongest winds, isolated tornadoes and generally the greater impact.”
So, the first time I moved to FL from MN as an adult I noticed a bunch of ppl standing around looking up. I was driving by the FD and the firefighters were out looking up too so I pulled over and got out of my car… and then I saw the funnel starting I got back in my car, drove home and got all the kids and I in the tub. I’ve been caught in a tornado once, NOT fun! I’ve also spent a summer living/sleeping in my MN basement family room sofa pullout w/ 3 kids b/c the warnings went off every night for weeks.
I have gotten to see 2. First I was a kid in the pre-everyone has a cell phone days. Second one was, I want to say, around 5-6 years ago? I got a pretty decent pic though. They are pretty spectacular in person if you’re not in the danger zone. (That said, one nearly tore through a bunch of KCK a couple years ago and that one was scary)
in FL… interior room w/ no windows is the rule. We had friends on Homestead AFB during Andrew and they were in the tub w/ 2 kids and a mattress over them. That base shut down after that and the AF changed their policies on weather evacuations for AD mbrs.