They said that because storms never hit that side of Florida, it's why the idea of Hurricane hitting Tampa flips everyone out.

Storm surge is gonna be a bitch to deal with.

But it’s not gonna level the state like Andrew did.

Didn’t they just have one a few years ago that hit Tampa? Like 2-3 years ago?

Literally every channel dramatizes these things. In part, to keep people watching, and to get people to take it seriously. It happens every time.

Fair.

They never track the way this one has

A major hurricane hasn't hit Tampa and like 100 years, it's generally pretty safe. If you go look at hurricane trajectory in the gulf they always break toward Texas/Louisiana so it breaking the other way is like a 1 in a thousand chance.

Okay. Hide yo kids and wives.

Okay. Got it.

Ok - I missed the crying weather people I guess. Weather Channel is ALWAYS overly dramatic about storms. I personally think they do it in an attempt to get people to evacuate instead of trying to ride the storm out because people are idiots.

I’ve rode out two cat 3s. Been a long time ago in the USAF. But was kinda a cool for a kid from Kansas.

1 dude cried, it was when it went from a 1 to a 5 in 12 hours and the milibars changed significantly.

It however was always forecast to come in at a 3.

One hit Fort Myers and made Sanibel Island look like an apocalypse a year or two ago, then IIRC went up the coast a bit, but not a direct hit to TB.

Yeah that was messed up. It has some good heat and moisture to pull from. But that last huge cold front that went throw was a blessing cause it was going scalp the enter off of this before land fall. Got so lucky.

Why are there some weirdos who are getting argumentative about this before the thing even hits land? I don't get it.