And Kirk:

@JulesofJoy @Bliss @Pat_Walrond
I think my greatest concerns are that the storm will jog north and hit people who are still on the road, and that Helene did not suck up enough heat from coastal waters and Milton will maintain its greatest strength after landfall.
Florida's geography may not be forgiving in an evacuation situation.

@JulesofJoy @Bliss @Pat_Walrond

@Pat_Walrond @Bliss @ellesu

Usually 5 or 6 floors.
A good one for a storm would be at least 4 floors above ground level and wide enough that parking in the center of the garage keeps you 50 feet away from the perimeter.

@Bliss @Pat_Walrond

We had satellites in 2005 <G>

@Bliss @Pat_Walrond @ellesu

At the time of Rita, I lived across the road from the Johnson Space Center, just a few hundred feet from Clear Lake, which means I was in a bad spot for storm surge.

@Bliss @Pat_Walrond @ellesu

During Rita, I did something that could be considered an alternative.
I parked in a parking garage in downtown Houston. If I ever am faced with such a storm again I will do it again and treat it like a big campout.
It's a lot safer than the roads my family were stuck on.

@Pat_Walrond An estimated 2.5 – 3.7 million people fled prior to Rita's landfall,[46][47] making it the largest evacuation in United States' history.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Rita

@Pat_Walrond
IIRC, Rita was the biggest evacuation in American history.

@Bliss @Pat_Walrond

That did not happen

@Pat_Walrond

No, the storm turned and hit the Tex/Louisiana border.
There were 2 million people trying to evac Houston for no reason. People died in traffic accidents in places where it wasn't even raining.
People got scared because this was like a few weeks after Katrina. There were so many uninvolved people telling people to evac, it became difficult for the authorities to pass on good info to the people on the roads, many of whom had run out of gas on the highway.

@Pat_Walrond
This repeats exactly the rhetoric just before Rita.
That was a different kind of disaster and people died on the highways in stop and go traffic.

I always find it entertaining when people who have never felt the slightest breeze from a tropical storm, suddenly become experts in hurricane preparedness.

Admirable faith

@LnzyHou
It is a very sad comment on the current state of healthcare in America, but rural and small-town hospitals tend to provide poorer healthcare. Med staff can make more money in bigger cities. Corporations like to buy up county hospitals and end up closing them because they can't make better profit and the property won't sell in the current market.
The whole situation sucks bigtime.

@th3j35t3r
I hope this is not a repeat of Rita.

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