Are you in the path of Hurricane Idalia's wrath?

Did you evacuate? How bad will it likely be where you live according to predictions? What did you do to prepare?

If you feel like it, feel free to post throughout the storm if you want to report what is happening where you are.

It’s Tuesday 7:45pm EDT and I had one outer band come through so far around 5:30pm. The eye is expected to go well north of me, but we will still get some rain and wind. Still can’t know exactly how bad it will be where I live. We are hunkered down for the night, all set up for the storm. Almost all stores, restaurants, and recreation centers closed by 6:00pm today and will be closed all day tomorrow.

My governor is using my town as one of the staging areas for the crews that will be helping restore power in the state, so that’s a good thing for me, if I lose power hopefully it will be repaired quickly. The power outages will mostly be north of me though. One of our schools is used as a shelter, but my guess is it is not very full since the impact is not expected to be very bad here. I was in a hotel last night in Bradenton, FL, and it filled up fast with evacuees.