Thanks, fossil. I made sure to see which way Irma was headed when we rolled out of here and where we went in SC was out of the cone plus after being over land for so long she'd be weakened down to a tropical storm. It was windy with only a bit of rain there when the heart of the storm passed far to the west but no big deal though even at there were a few trees down and power out for a couple of days - the power grid in upstate SC isn't really up to tropical storm rigors. I've been in FL for four decades and this is the fourth time the threat was enough to evacuate though only once, with Hurricane Charley in 04, did we get a direct hit here, and a Catagory 4 at that. When I leave I watch which way the track trends and go the other way, lol, but this one followed us right up the state before turning west while we went east. It's a hard thing boarding up your home and leaving without knowing there'll be anything to come back to which was how it looked almost for certain with this one, but a slight turn to the east and some dry air sucked into it spared us here and sent the horror more inland. That's another hard thing about these storms; if you don't get smashed some other poor folks will so I don't take kindly to making light of this crap. Homes are wrecked, businesses shattered, and lives turned to hell. It was a few tree branches down and a few days without power for me this time but there are a lot of people only a few miles from here who are just devastated, and the devastation runs right up the middle of the state, including the loss of 50% or more of the juice orange crop so if you drink OJ you'll feel it too in a smaller way.