Hurricane Irma Update 2

Brevard County Evacuation Shelters were announced yesterday. They will be open at 3pm Friday (today). We are not in an evacuation or flood zone.

The spaghetti plots show that Irma is heading more west again. Those poor people on the west coast thought they were going to miss it two days ago. Then yesterday there was a slight shift westward, and this morning they have their predictions shifted even more west (to go straight up the center of Florida). Who knows where it will actually go.

Hurricane Irma has also downgraded to category 4 at this point.

It is expected to be a category 3 or even possibly 2 by the time it gets to us. Hurricane Matthew was a category 3 when it strolled on by.

We are still prepping for it, of course.

It rained last night (irrelevant to the hurricane).

Woke up this morning to beautiful sunshine. I'm sure that won't last long. We are expected to have tropical storm effects by tomorrow afternoon.

That's it for now. I will try to post another update tonight before going to bed.

Previous Update: http://lishayost.blogspot.com/2017/09/hurricane-irma-update-1.html

Next Update: http://lishayost.blogspot.com/2017/09/hurricane-irma-update-3.html

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  1. UnknownSeptember 8, 2017 at 8:56 AM

    This Hurricane may gain strength over warm waters by Cuba, so it is possible it may become a Cat 5 as it makes it to Florida. Hopefully it will loose strength instead. My thoughts and faith and prayers I send & are with you and Kyle and all your friends and family out there in the path of this storm!

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    1. Lisha YostSeptember 8, 2017 at 4:25 PM

      Thanks Anelise. Yes, at the moment it is now forecast to become category 5 again before hitting Miami. Thank you for the prayer. Love you! Praying for everyone that will be or already has been affected.

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