That's gonna kill my daughter!!! She's been dating a guy from Carabelle for the last couple of years and being as she's working during the week up here in Alabama she won't get to make down there for the storm. As a father, being as she drives through a national forest (road debris) to get there and it *might* be dangerous otherwise, I can't say that I'm unhappy she'll be stuck up here.
Now, if it was me *I* would be fine down there.
I know she'll miss being there for the storm, though, and be heading down there Friday to check everything out.
It looks like they're predicting it to be a tropical storm all the way up the gulf coast until landfall. That sounds good to me, hopefully it will bring rain to places that need it...rain without hurricane winds is nice though things can still get damaged and people killed if they're in the wrong place at the wrong time. As we all know, you've got to respect the weather.
Ed