re: Hurricane Milton - The Cleanup Begins...

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If someone could help with advice, I would really appreciate it. The kids are out of school Th/F of this week and M/T of next week for a nice fall fall break. We have a trip to Universal in Orlando planned. We are supposed to fly in on Thursday. My wife and I are almost definitely going to cancel the trip this morning. Are we correct?

I know Orlando is well inland, but everything I have seen points to it still being a hurricane when it exits into the Atlantic which means it will have plenty of oomph. I think the only thing that could possibly save it would be if the hurricane went further south than expected. Am I missing something here? The kids are really disappointed which I understand, but we don’t want to fly into somewhere that is struggling to recover and to the system further.

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LSU2ALA, we are in a similar situation. Our 4 kids have fall break this week. We were suppose to check in this evening and check out Sunday. We finally told them we were going last weekend, and when we told them we had to postpone, there was a lot disappointment and sadness. This would've been the first time for the 3 younger ones.

We rescheduled for the Thursday before Thanksgiving through the Wednesday right before Thanksgiving day. We didn't want to half-arse this expensive trip and not know for certain if the parks would even be open on Thursday/Friday or even Saturday. No one knows what this storm is going to bring. Plus, it just doesn't seem right to be in Disney even if they are open enjoying rides while thousands of people in the surrounding area dealing with the aftermath of a devastating hurricane.

We brought the kids to a pumpkin patch yesterday after we told them we had to postpone and let them pick out more pumpkins then we usually allow to brighten their day...it worked, lol.

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Of course for someone who lives in the path then they can't wait and have to assume the NSW isn't just hyping storms for political reasons.

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Link to support this with any data?

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Link to support this with any data?

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Small eye on Milton. Can spin up fast

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972 mb to 940 mb in four hours.

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Hurricane Andrew was 922 when it hit , for comparison

I expect this to have the same type of impact as that one.

Trying like hell to make sure my son gets out of Sarasota ASAP before this thing impacts

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I'm wondering what's going to happen to that very long pier at Progreso.

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Might become the very short pier at Progreso

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LSURussian

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I know these things can be politicized but my question still stands - where is there proof that the NHC is “hyping” these storms?

This thing might destroy Tampa

I've got some friends that live in SW Seminole less than a mile from the channel/water behind Redington Beach. They just said they're going to ride it out.

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Are there any comparible storms to this ones projected path from the past? I’ve never seen a major hurricane form in the Western Gulf before and trek straight across the gulf to Florida rapidly intensifying like this.

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Did a little research for anyone else interested based on what someone posted below. The only 2 majors to make landfall in TB area were in 1848 and 1921. The one from 1921 was a Caribbean hurricane though. Only major to form in the gulf and hit TB was 1848. Rare indeed if track holds.

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