No question now about Hurricane Irma. If you have an RV, please don't make the mistake of being a hero-pack up and get the heck out of the storm at any cost. Just to inform readers that severe damage to RV's will hurt us all through higher insurance rates spread over policy holders. If you delay, you will regret sitting in traffic when you could be comfortable away in some safe place. If you stay, very good chance your RV and maybe you home will be shredded. I know from reading these RV forums, that this has been said before. Please be Smart and safe.

Good luck, the roads are plugged.

drmopar wrote:No question now about Hurricane Irma. If you have an RV, please don't make the mistake of being a hero-pack up and get the heck out of the storm at any cost. Just to inform readers that severe damage to RV's will hurt us all through higher insurance rates spread over policy holders. If you delay, you will regret sitting in traffic when you could be comfortable away in some safe place. If you stay, very good chance your RV and maybe you home will be shredded. I know from reading these RV forums, that this has been said before. Please be Smart and safe.Not a lot of compassion with the hurt us all statement -Get out and be safe - the heck with the RV if you can not get it out

Leaving in the a.m. Gas station near me has run out of gas, others are limiting it to 10 gals. I am just NE of Tampa. Small town. Will try to stay off I-75 if I can.

LadyRVer wrote:Leaving in the a.m. Gas station near me has run out of gas, others are limiting it to 10 gals. I am just NE of Tampa. Small town. Will try to stay off I-75 if I can.I would leave now. The longer you wait the worse the traffic even on the back roads. Do you think you are the only one who is going to use back roads because I-75 is plugged up?Bill

Did not mean any disrespect. I base this on personal knowledge. When a named storm on the east coast hit years ago, some boat owner did nothing to protect their boats. These people experienced total losses with their boats. The people that did take some precautions had less or no damage. My boat insurance rate went up a lot, and I live on the west coast. Just saying

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OFDPOS
Explorer
Sep 08, 2017
Have some friends that live on Merritt Island, they have only lived in Florida for about 5 years now, so have only been through a couple, Mathew and Hermine last year.

They have decided to stay (us shaking our heads in disbelief)
But he has talked with some neighbors that have been through other hurricanes there and they are staying as well.

Crazy , they should have been out of there yesterday !
WTP-GC
Explorer
Sep 08, 2017
OFDPOS wrote:
Have some friends that live on Merritt Island, they have only lived in Florida for about 5 years now, so have only been through a couple, Mathew and Hermine last year.

They have decided to stay (us shaking our heads in disbelief)
But he has talked with some neighbors that have been through other hurricanes there and they are staying as well.

Crazy , they should have been out of there yesterday !

Hermine was a piece of crapola west coast tropical storm. Caused a tremendous amount of damage over there. Mathew was a fairly impressive Cat1 storm that affected areas of the NE and central east coasts most heavily. Point is that I wouldnt have based my decisions to stay in Merrit Island based on those 2 storms. As I've said in other threads on here, I'm staying put. But if I lived in Merrit Island, I would already be gone.
CavemanCharlie
Explorer III
Sep 08, 2017
Dance Chick wrote:
CavemanCharlie wrote:
Dance Chick wrote:
WTP-GC wrote:
drmopar wrote:
If you stay, very good chance your RV and maybe you home will be shredded.

If the storm is going to shred your RV or home, it doesn't matter if you're there or not.

I wish the dooms-dayers would quit with this non-sense of writing your name and SS number on your body. Turn off the junk media TV and get real. I've lived in FL all my life and been seen countless bad storms (here and other places). The only time this was ever mentioned was for Hurricane Harvey. Now every media outlet and keyboard commando is saying it.

Stay or leave...if you have the choice, make the choice and own it. Us, if we have to leave, because of where we live, we can wait till the day before. I'm really not tremendously worried. But if I lived along the SE coast in a questionable home...SEE YA.

We're in central FL and are also staying. Have been through numerous hurricanes before. I agree that if we were coastal SE, we'd be leaving. We live in a retirement community with RV homes and a covered RV storage lot. From what I can tell, most are also staying.

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I don't live there and have never been through anything at all like a hurricane. When it hits the coast the winds Could Be, and I say again, Could Be 140 mph. Even in central Florida I think that I would leave the RV park and find some place stronger.

The good news is that it is a fast moving storm so the rain will not be as bad as Harvey. Still the wind is going to blow hard for a day. That's a long time to hunker down in an RV.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply we're in our RV. We're in our s&b. Our MH is here in a storage facility within our community. If I were in an RV, you can be sure I'd be outta here!!

Oh, Gotcha.

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