This morning at Starbucks with my two new friends, evacuees from impending Milton landfall in Florida.

They live on an island in the Tampa area. Two bridges but only one is now open. If that one is closed it will be a while before they can get back. Milton is very real here this morning

Mary & Randy, the Florida evacuees I've met in Starbucks this week, are back for their last morning before starting to work their way back to Anna Maria Island in the Tampa area. Luckily for them, Milton came ashore 20-25 miles south of them so they think they had no storm surge. Randy explained that hurricanes wobble as head toward land and you never know until the last where the storm will find land. If Milton had come across their little island, it could have wiped out the whole island and their house and boat. Good for them. Florida will recover but it will take time and effort. Many were not so lucky.

As Randy and Mary depart Starbucks, Randy says that the roof at the Rays baseball stadium in Tampa was designed to withstand winds of 150 MPH and the highest recorded wind from Milton was 101. Add the damage inside the stadium by the wind and rain and the lawsuits will be fast furious. As I always say, technology always eventually fails usually at the worse moments.