Hurricane Harvey AAR

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Still too early to know the path of Irma. They often forget to ask us where they are supposed to track.

I have many friends in Florida and this storm seems more likely to land there. Being in a hurricane area makes you a prepper even if you are not inclined to call yourself one. Most all my friends have large gen-sets, food stores, more than one chain saw, off grid gear and such to get them through a couple of weeks without power or support. A couple of them live in homes especially built to withstand hurricane force winds with poured concrete walls and bolted down steel roofs, roll down covers for windows and doors.

The average altitude of the land in Florida is two meters above sea level and the highest point in the state is the top of the Mariot Hotel in Miami. When you install a swimming pool you have to fill it immediately or it will float out of the ground.

Florida is 1500 miles from where Harvey landed. It is category 5 now but they normally decrease as the pass over the islands.

This will be the first time we have been struck by two major storms in one season since the Katrian/Rita storms of 2005.