Bill Cairns is now saying that Dorian may skirt the Florida coast

[malaise]

and bend out to sea then hit Georgia and the Carolinas.
This is madness for millions.

[elleng]

1. Pretty clear ANYTHING is POSSIBLE!!!

[Hoyt]

2. Walmart sold a lot of stuff in S Florida. Now, they can stock

up stores all along east coast.

To be safe, you gotta go with forecasts, but they are seldom accurate enough this early.

One DUer posted about a model that has it hitting Maine.

[gldstwmn]

14. One has it hitting Florida east to west, going out into the Gulf

And making a u turn right back into Florida. It's too soon to tell. It is a very well formed storm at this point.

[Leghorn21]

3. The uncertainty is "stress" x 1000000

[KPN]

4. That's the thing. That's what hurricanes do.

Exactly why everyone gets amped up. Eventually, somebody/someplace gets creamed. Scary!

[malaise]

5. True

Miami stations are still preparing for the worst

[mitch96]

11. "Miami stations are still preparing for the worst"

Didn't we do this with Michael? I teased us and just skirted the shoreline as it moved north. I'd rather be prepared than caught off guard. After so many years we got it down pat. But not the anxiety..
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[regnaD kciN]

6. If that happens...

...look for Trumpers everywhere to claim that God intervened miraculously to protect Mar-a-Lago.

[sprinkleeninow]

7. Yeah, the latest projection on WeatherNation. n/t

[Scurrilous]

8. The return lines at Home Depot are going to be huge!

[sir pball]

9. The ECMWF model still calls for a hit

They don't have as much computing grunt as we do, but their dataset and modeling is much better so I'm going with them.

They called Sandy something like nine days out.

[triron]

10. Yes it depends on which model you favor.

[Takket]

12. yeah i have noticed.......

that every update shows it turning north earlier and earlier. hopefully it just keeps on bending north. my parents are in west palm so hopefully this beast just stays out to sea

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. high-waisted? mini? pleated? A-line?

You gotta be more specific. Nukes could be involved.

[GulfCoast66]

15. Goodness folks. I know you that don't live in the peninsula of Florida don't follow this regularly

But some of us who do have seen this coming for over 4 days.

In my 32 years here it happens every 2-4 years. Big storm approaching the east coast of Florida. We’re all going to die! Good TV ratings and lots of sales at the store.

Never mind that the east coast of Florida north of Indian River county has almost never been hit by a hurricane. Yeah, it happens. Like 3 times every hundred years or less.

Once a hurricane gets up to those latitudes it almost always gets turned to the east. And the peninsula of Florida does not run north to south. But northwest to Southeast.

Many of us living here prepared like we always do, but expected this since it happens all the fucking time. Big storm from the Atlantic. Turns north.

Storm in the gulf heading my way, I get concerned. Storm coming out of the North Bahamas. North Carolina may get hit.

Yeah, we could still get hit. And we are ready like always. But most of this is to drive ratings. Until tonight how many mentions on any news channels, including the weather channel have you heard that historically these storms turn north! None. Now it is all about North Carolina getting hit.

I’m not saying we are not ready. But it seems the people least likely to post panicky post on DU are those of us who actually live in Florida and have been thru multiple hurricanes. They suck. Then they leave. We clean up.

This is no different than 1990. What is different is 24 news and the weather channel.

[malaise]

16. Looks like the person panicking the most is your governor

He's now saying that there is a fuel shortage in the state.

The good news is that this will not turn and go up through Florida. That said Dorian is a deadly hurricane.