#Milton

Neighbor,
Listening to ham radio:

9:30pm ET

I75 North, out of TampaBay, stop and go traffic. All the way to the state line. Average speed 4 MPH. Folks are running out of gas. Cars blocking emergency vehicles.

This is bad folks.

@corlin indeed.

This is one factor that is often overlooked when people ask “why didn’t you evacuate?”

Evacuating a city/region/state is….. challenging, at best.

Especially when you don’t really know how bad it will be, until you do.

@Beanc

Yes !
And that is if you’re lucky enough to have a car, and money for gas.

@corlin @Beanc hindsight would say to gas up at the first warning.

@JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin sure. But I had a friend in… was it Irma? In 16 or 17?

Anyway, I’m pretty sure she said it was a 20 hour evac driving.

I didn’t ask, but all of so. Florida was evaccing. And 20 hours is many tanks of gas.
How many of those gas stations still had gas, with the whole so fl leaving?

@Beanc @JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin
I've heard emergency management agencies placed gas at intervals along the highways for exactly this reason. Don't know how long it will last.

@AlphaCentauri @JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin that’s helpful

@Beanc @AlphaCentauri @JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin If I lived there I would move to another state, honestly, hurricanes are getting stronger , all the money they have to spend every time they evacuate.