Hurricane Milton Before the Hit

Hurricane Milton is coming. We are as ready as we can be, and now we are waiting.

Hurricane Milton preparations

We went camping over the weekend. When we came home Monday, we unpacked and began hurricane preparations for Milton.

Hurricane Helene mostly missed us, but this big one named Milton will not. We are in the path, with the eye going just a bit south. I live on the east coast and then projection is for a Category 1 by the time it gets here.

The Gulf will be devastated, and I can’t even imagine facing a Category 4. Many people have evacuated. Gas stations are without gas.

We spent the day putting up metal shutters on all our windows. We left some gaps in order to see outside and get fresh air with open windows once the storm has passed. There will be no power – for how long?

Metal hurricane shutters are on the windows

My son is a firefighter and is heading into work a day early. I hope the city will not be sending them out when the wind gets bad. People need to be self-reliant during times like this.

I expect power to go out and trees limbs to come down. Hopefully the flooding will not be bad, but lots of people were getting sand bags.

By tomorrow night we’ll be getting wind and then it’s a matter of riding out the storm into Friday. This is a big one, and damage will be extensive across the state.

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Author: Pam

New England native, Florida resident. Blogging about boating, beach-combing, gardening, camping, and knitting. Work for Zazzle as a designer since 2008.

2 thoughts on “Hurricane Milton Before the Hit”

  1. Pam, I am pleased to get your update – I was wondering if you were going
    to be impacted this time.

    I hope that you get through this ok and once you have power again,
    please let us know that you are safe. Will be thinking of you.

    Glad that you had time to get some camping in after Helene and before
    Miton. And I hope that your garden mostly survives. Are you likely to
    get flooding?

    And I hope Milton has de-energised by the time it gets to you – I heard
    on the news this evening that it had gone back up to a 5 after they
    thought it might go down to a 3 when it landed.

    So get your candles out, and your hurricane lamp (or torches!) a good
    book that will last for hours, and hunker down.

    XX

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    1. Thanks Justine. My house has never flooded. The wind will be the biggest problem. Power outages and keeping food from spoiling, but we have a generator. I live in a neighborhood where we all pull together and help each other out. Thanks for thinking of me. And yes, I plan to do a lot of reading! Maybe I’ll get your book finished 😉

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