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In my felt slippers "house shoes" no less - you know something major is happening when a German runs out into the street and gets in her car wearing her HAUSSCHUHE!

Still no power... :cautious: This just in from Florida Power & Light, our service provider: They are actually very, very good at what they do. This ain't their first rodeo...

00:30. Power went out. Wind is hectic. I'm shit scared. Everything else ok.

21:00 and all ok here. Will try and get some sleep now. Thanks everyone for sticking with us through this 😘

19:15 Eerily calm and quiet. No rain, not a breath of wind for about half an hour now. Milton has started the process of making landfall and its eyewall and most intense winds are coming onshore, according to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center. Milton’s eyewall has winds at...

18:30 Took a gap in the weather. The street is gone already...

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16:00 Tornados coming hard and fast now, so far nothing in our direction. Wind is gusting hard. Rain is bucketing down. Street is starting to flood. Power is flickering already. I am having an emotional support whiskey... 🥃 It's gonna be a long night.

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Ok, so well inland, that's good (y)

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5:30 am Wednesday

Mr. Zog is very optimistic. Me, not so much. We disagree on this one. Yesterday Milton was forecast to be category 3 at landfall. NOAA's 5 am update has it revised to category 4.

This about sums it up.

Latest as of 11:00 Tuesday

We are ready.

These alerts override whatever you are doing on your phone. They are loud and obnoxious and won't stop until you press OK.

Latest from NOAA as of 20:00 Monday evening

We're staying put. We are not under mandatory evacuation orders, and we can't really evacuate anyway, we have nowhere to go. We would have to leave the state entirely to get out of the way. Most storm shelters don't take dogs, and the few that do only accept dogs in crates, which we don't have...

Interim update from NOAA just now... they ran out of numbers. There is no category 6, so they are calling it an "intense category 5". I'm getting a wee bit worried here, now... :oops: