Florida/The Caribbean/Irma check in

[Rumor]

Irma update: While over a million people in Puerto Rico have lost electricity, all the folks I know who have friends and family there are safe, thankfully. With its financial issues, this is the last thing Puerto Rico needed. The people are amazingly resilient.

With the evacuations of the Florida Keys, Miami Beach and the all coastal areas, there is a gas shortage and quirky traffic jams, as people sit in gas lines reminiscent of the early 1970's.

South Florida weather with start to deteriorate Friday night, after the last airline flights out. We are waiting and watching to see when the storm will turn north to determine where the eye of the storm will land. The eye is 70 miles wide. The storm itself is 400 miles wide. The state of Florida is only 175 miles wide. I think we have a problem. Follow the European hurricane model for the most accurate information, for anyone in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, or have friends and family in these areas.

Older brother, in New York, keeps telling me to leave, me thinks it's a bit too late.

Everyone, be well, Rumor