Hurricane Irma - Size DOES matter!
Florida is 160 miles wide at its most distant points. From Cedar Key to Daytona 143 miles wide. Hurricane Irma is - 400 miles wide! Simple math! We are ALL are going to get hit and hit hard no ...
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WTP-GC wrote:
I doubt there's very many tourists in FL right now (comparatively speaking of course). The population of the 3 big SE counties (palm beach, broward, miami-dade) makes up roughly 1/3 of the state's total population. The Keys are an extremely small number of people. 30K sounds like about half of their population.
We know people who live all over the state...miami to jax...none of them are leaving. We're not aware of anyone in our community that's leaving. Sure, most of us have a plan b, but plan a is to stay here.
Our plan is to stay, also, if we possibly can.
As far as tourist numbers this month, it's probably in the 100s of thousands. (The state had more than 112.8 million people visit in 2016, almost equally divided by quarter. Conventions and meetings fill hotel rooms in the fall.)
Cruise lines are cancelling sailings after people have already arrived in Fla., and ships are returning early to Florida ports. I saw a cruise tourist on TV tonight who couldn't get a flight, train, bus or rental car. So he bought himself a car and is driving north.
It's not a good time to join the evacuation.
