It's just a screen that covers the outside of your patio if you live on a golf course so that golf balls don't **** you up when you're sitting on your patio.

WhenTF did Buck move?

13 months ago

How do you like the east coast? That is quite the jump from one puddle to another.

Boy, that's really gonna **** with the tb/Miami football game

What in the actual ****?

All you coasters are welcome out here. I guarantee you will not die by hurricane here.

I may make you pay rent by driving tuck though. :D

I'm leaving here to go to Tampa tomorrow. I have lived through a hurricane before.

be warned, long time residents who have been through multiple hurricanes are very nervous about this hurricane. If you don't have to go, maybe reconsider?

Not particularly the wisest thing.. keep an eye on the path.. it can still move quite a bit and could end up going right through Tampa.

Yeah.. me too. This thing is much stronger than what we usually see this early. I was already surprised by its strength a couple days ago... Now, it is pretty crazy.

Exactly! I just saw the current paths predicted and they're telling even us to prepare—when odds favor us to be missed or get the remaining rains and lighter winds. The authorities can overdo the call to prepare but I'd rather see that, than not. Often they turn out wrong.

I recall when my town was originally supposed to be ground zero with Ivan. I evacuated to a cousin's in SC, only to have it stay out in the Gulf leaving my area as a bright sunny day.

In the meantime, while in SC, down the street a house had a tree land on it from one of the spin-off tornadoes. When I drove back to return, and was on the east coast still driving back, got hit with some of a new one that came in. Most of that season, we just got them as tropical storms instead of the full hit.

I remember that whole season, I just left all windows and sliding glass doors with the plywood up. It was like living in a cave. Wasn't going keep putting it up and taking it all down. I didn't replace my lanai's screened pool cage until just two years ago, cuz I got tired of replacing them after each storm. Just figures now that I did, that a new hurricane could come again.

So I'm gonna wrap up some important paperwork, pay bills, secure all photos that can't remedied with insurance money and get ready anyhow—short of putting plywood up everywhere. I'll just let insurance pay for any damage. Tired of doing that. Besides, I could get a new floor plan if it gets really bad. Always, look on the bright side of life.

Latest: strengthens to 185 mph sustained winds.

I'll help cut your millet if I can take some home later.:D

The world is a scary place!

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