"Brendan DJ Murphy" wrote in
:

About 2.5 million residents were told to evacuate their homes Thursday
ahead of what could be the most powerful storm to hit Florida in a
decade. Other people in the 300-mile stretch covered by the hurricane
warning rushed to fortify their homes with plywood and storm shutters,
and buy water, gas and canned food.

Once again we have the interesting situation with the NOAA wind analysis
team suggesting a peak wind of 94kts in the storm at 0130Z today and the NHC
keeping their estimates at 110kts at 0300Z- as their forecasts are in the
public and not scientific interest.

Better to be safe than sorry I suppose !

Richard