Some family friends have already been evacuated from a 'sensitive military installation' in the Keys. The whole base except for a very small security team has been moved to the main land and sent to Orlando for now.

I flew with the old Navy Hurricane Hunters for two years out of Jacksonville and this one is scary even to me. In the old Hurricane Hunters we were very proud of how many folks we saved by our early warnings. Now that NOAA and the Air Force have taken over it is like folks do not listen to their warnings anymore. I was watching the Discovery Channel program the other day on P-3 Orions and they showed two of the planes I have flown on in 1974 still flying with the NOAA teams. They have updated the interiors a BUNCH though.