Reply #17: Sorry to be a doomsdayer but this is precisely why I posted this [View All]

[stop the bleeding]

if everyone(including local officials) base their decisions on the TV guys then this thing COULD be ugly. I don't know the exact numbers but the amount of people that live in the Tampa Bay area, Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas, Sarasota, Manatee and Polk counties is probably 1-2 million people(don't know what Ft, Myers,Venice, and Naples is like, but probably similar if not worse due to the amount of retirees per capita per emergency worker). On normal days it takes people all sorts of time to get anywhere around here because the traffic/roads are so poorly planned, can't imagine what it would be like if there was a mass exodus north from all of those areas and this does not even take into the account of all of the people that are coming up from the extreme southern portion of the state.