Anybody wanting a quick read on the size of the storm ... my south Georgia homestead was put under a TS warning two hours ago with Ian over land nearing Orlando, 250 miles away.
For comparison, Wilma was the most powerful storm I encountered in Florida and it topped out with sustained winds just over 100 mph as it roared past on something like the track Ian is taking, but a lot faster. Ian topped out at 150 mph, or, in terms of energy more than twice as powerful, as energy increases as the square of the speed.
Wilma in its quick pass wiped out every highway sign within 50 miles of its center and put us on generator power for more than a week. Ian's more on the scale of Andrew, before my time in Florida, but according to the old-timers, tore a path of destruction leaving busted houses in its wake, leaving people scrounging when their food ran out weeks later.
I've got people in Ft. Myers, where a shark was spotted swimming down a city street today.
Thoughts and prayers.
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