Trouble for Florida?

I went to Key West some years back. A lot of concrete homes in Miami and all that I see in the Keys are as well

just a share:

old days, like where we live, logs were the only option to build a house, except brink, and there was even
a brickyard business right next to the logging business in a very small community where we live:
both of those 'old-ways' were over-come by 'new-ways', but some of their off-spring are still here,
and still 'logging for the world' in 'new ways'...for what the world calls 'middle-class', the 'logging industry,
on a home-family-level, can very, very lucrative...

the brick-yard lays empty, but the old train tracks that loaded and carried the logs,
are but a long, lost memory, but still just thinking about it and visualizing those ole-timers floating t
those great big logs down that black creek, gators/snakes & all, and then loading them on
the waiting trains,
it's kind of thrilling to think about for us, because hub and me, we were privileged enough to ride our horses
over those beaten old paths for many years, and we heard the real history from many of those who had lived it,
their houses were built from it and so is ours today...
it was truly a thrill, especially being able to one on one talk to some of those who had lived it...

we really do live in a very special community, kind of like, 'apart from the rest of the world',
just in a different kind of way, because of God...we're very, very, thankful, always...

So why evacuate? Makes no sense to me. I've never been that far south.

I also heard that a lot of homes in Miami are made of concrete, and the evacuations will cause those on I 75 to be stuck on the highway, and the hurricane shifting puts them right back in the path, That those in the concrete homes, should of holed up.

Lots of things being said.

I didnt know the difference in cost between the two types. So thanks oncefallen.

And our home is wood of course. Lol.

just a share:

old days, like where we live, logs were the only option to build a house, except brink, and there was even
a brickyard business right next to the logging business in a very small community where we live:
both of those 'old-ways' were over-come by 'new-ways', but some of their off-spring are still here,
and still 'logging for the world' in 'new ways'...for what the world calls 'middle-class', the 'logging industry,
on a home-family-level, can very, very lucrative...

the brick-yard lays empty, but the old train tracks that loaded and carried the logs,
are but a long, lost memory, but still just thinking about it and visualizing those ole-timers floating
those great big logs down that black creek, gators/snakes & all, and then loading them on
the waiting trains,
it's kind of thrilling to think about for us, because hub and me, we were privileged enough to ride our horses
over those beaten old paths for many years, and we heard the real history from many of those who had lived it,
their houses were built from it and so is ours today...
it was truly a thrill, especially being able to one on one talk to some of those who had lived it...

we really do live in a very special community, kind of like, 'apart from the rest of the world',
just in a different kind of way, because of God...we're very, very, thankful, always...

Don't feel overly bad, concrete homes still have wood roofs. Extreme winds will still blow the roof right off the concrete walls.

Happy lowered to Cat 2 as it will help with lower wind speeds... Thanks for all your prayers.

Happy lowered to Cat 2 as it will help with lower wind speeds... Thanks for all your prayers.

Ah, man! Now I'm picturing you two hunkering down in your house with horses in the living room. lol

What do you do with horses when a hurricane is coming?

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Lynnie,

The Lord finally put an end to our 'Horse Business' last year when he allowed an over 100yr.old,
pecan tree, fall directly onto our 7stall barn, which, was by His will, EMPTY at the time.

we took it in stride as His Will for us to make yet another, 'letting-go', a part of our 'old-lives'...

so, no horses, just our 'Prince Simon', our precious cat that our Father gave to us...
we're trying to keep him as 'stress-free' as we can...