and the fact that it is moving quickly.

The wind damage is going to be horrendous though.

the mayors get blamed for hurricane responses in their cities.

I feel certain he will do all that he can for the citizens of Tallahassee.

Everyone agrees that it got really strong really, really fast. The clean up and relief efforts are where officials need to act quickly and efficiently or else they will be blamed. Of course since this doesn't involve mainly brown people like in Puerto Rico so relief from the GOP govt may be better in comparison.

So for the sake of the people living there, it shouldn't be nearly as bad as what we see in the Panama City area.

But politics as they are, I'm sure the Republicans will try to blame Gillum for everything regardless. And Bill Nelson.

They said his campaign depends on how he handles this. Mainly they will nave downed trees and power lines that are dangerous. He seems to be on top of it now, I hope it stays that way for his sake and for the residents.

all they should in case of a disastrous hurricane?

There were people who didn’t evacuate early and then it was so severe they couldn’t leave.

There are going to be a lot wood frame homes flattened.

of this intensity cross I-10 into Georgia. Apparently I-10's been seen as a typical upper limit. Not this time. "All those pine trees." If he were poetic he'd speak of the "piney woods" of southern GA.

He's worried, even if Polly and others like her aren't, about the wellbeing of people, especially in "unsafe structures," who heard a cat 2 arriving at shore discussed all day yesterday and thus thought they'd be fine at home. Instead, it intensified remarkably fast overnight and hurricane force winds will move far inland. Not nearly enough shelters prepared.

Brian Williams tried -- at length -- to blow off government and media failures to consider real possibilities as "no one's fault" and "a true act of God," but Honore wasn't buying it. He responded with professional restraint but said he always treated every storm as a possible cat 4.

Happy Republican government and global warming.

will be bad but no way as bad if had it further north or south...

Agnes never even made hurrican status and caused the most extensive flooding in Pennsylvania many years before and after 1972.

My dad had his two weeks of vacation to spend at our house in the Poconos and it rained and rained. Little creeks turned into rivers and waterfalls.

This storm isn't super bad with rain or storm surge (like Sandy) but the wind is the main problem. At least it is moving fast.

than the water damage that usually happens with hurricanes.