How much Dr. Pepper do you have on hand?

Do you Floridians sit on the front porch and watch hurricanes like us Midwesterners do with tornadoes?

My oldest daughter moved to Tampa last Monday.


Ugh.

Well, you may be getting a quick and unexpected return home visit for a few days, lol.

Hope all goes well for her.

It was really really scary honestly. We were in a wood frame house. We were boarded up, but it sounded like a freight train was coming through. You would hear large objects just slamming into the house and roof. We had the kids on mattresses in the hallway cuz we didn’t have an interior room with no windows. I waited about a week and a half to remove my boards. The only reason I did was because they said Jean had turned and would t affect us. Then about a day later they said in typical South Parking fashion “ITS COMING RIGHT FOR US”. Had to re board mine and my bosses windows rapidly. Luckily we found a generator between the 2 storms. Cuz it’s impossible to get laid when you have no power and it’s like 100 degrees outside. There was a small empty lot in the middle of our block, and someone brought a big barrel with a grate to cook food on. As everyone’s food was thawing they would bring it to the pit and cook it and share it with the people from the block. It sucked, but there was also a lot of unity that wasn’t always prevalent in the neighborhood prior to that. We had lots of the neighborhood kids over watching cartoons with our kids in a window unit worth of AC because we happened to get a generator.

Hang on to your ass, Cooch. Good luck to you and yours down there.

We sit in the parking lot of Publix and Home Depot, watching newbies to Florida panic buy a ton of shit they’ll never use.

Bro, if there’s anything I can do to help please reach out. I have 2 girls and couldn’t imagine them going through that alone.

nahhhh we learned

Best wishes to everyone down there

Hey, that's like here with an ice storm outside of Hy-Vee and Lowe's!

We throw hurricane parties

I always keep a year's supply. It's a requirement of the Pepperdite Church.

We just left South Seas Resort on Captiva Island a few hours ago. The hotel portion of the place was basically a ghost by now. But some of the other properties privately owned on the resort still seem pretty inhabited. I can’t imagine being on that island or Sanibel for that matter to ride this out but I guess plenty of people will. Definitely wasn’t a bunch of people fleeing. And Fort Myers itself seemed not at all concerned.

Yeah, but we open the garage doors and put out a few chairs.