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Prepping for Florence

With Hurricane Florence just off the Coast and due to make land fall tomorrow,  we getting our ducks in a row.  Last year this time Irma made a direct hit on Florida and then plowed right up through Georgia into South Carolina.  We had winds strong enough to break a dock line Incorrect Position Correct Location  and  lost power for three days.  We were lucky to have friends who did not lose power that offered us a place to stay (we declined due to 3 cats and a dog), freezer space, showers and charges for our devices. Florence is going to be a bigger bitch than Irma was.  She has forced mandatory evacuations along the entire coast of South Carolina and parts of North Carolina.  People are taking heed.  In the 12 years we have lived in the Upstate I don't ever remember them reversing the traffic lanes on the highways so people can flee the Coast.  Nor do I remember so many people actually fleeing the coast. Photo from T...