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Hurricane Ian Is About Slam Into My City
Please don’t take my roof.
I live in Tampa, Florida. We have an imminent and lovely date with Ian.
Ian doesn’t like that I bought a brand new house. Like a psychotic jealous ex, he wants to take all the good things in my life and rip them apart.
My home is just outside of the evacuation zone. All the highways today were full of cars that are traveling to other parts of the state, you could see various luggage on their roofs. Flights had doubled in price.
My old house was in the red and is at risk of flooding — I’m genuinely concerned about a few neighbors who might still be here.
Floridians aren’t always good at heeding evacuation orders.
Supplies are running thin
Today, the grocery store felt a bit like peak pandemic mode.
People swarmed all the bottled water section while others cleaned out all the TP and paper towels. There’s this weird thing in the US where people want to die with a surplus of toilet…
