My wife's sister and her husband live in Cape Coral, FL [View all]
Adjacent to Fort Meyers, which is apparently the landfall for Irma, according to the latest forecasts. They have evacuated from the home in Cape Coral, but only went as far as Fort Meyers, to a house with storm shutters that is on "high" ground, whatever that means there. Earlier in the week, they considered evacuating North, but decided to wait until the path was better defined.
This morning, that path has been better defined, and they're in the bulls eye. They texted this morning that they wished they had headed North on Tuesday or Wednesday, but the forecasts had the eye hitting to the east, so they made their decision.
We're very concerned for them, and realize that we will probably lose contact with them for some time after today. It's likely that there won't even be cell service for a while. So, we're probably not going to know how they weathered the storm for a day or two. That is going to be very, very difficult for my wife.
I hope they'll be OK, but I wish they had evacuated earlier in the week. Tomorrow is going to be a very anxiety producing day for us up here in Minnesota. I'm not looking forward to that.
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