Matthew is Coming and He’s Packing a Punch!

In 2004, I was a high school Assistant Principal at a school that served as an evacuation shelter during hurricanes.  In the span of a month we opened the shelter three times.  It’s hard to believe that our area was hit with that many hurricanes in that small time frame.  The damage done to our area was bad, but not as terrible as it could have been.

Today Hurricane Matthew is on track to slowly move up the coast of Florida as a level 4 (4!) hurricane.  Those in the know say that Matthew will easily be in the top 5 worst U.S. hurricanes of all time.  In our county the beach side is under a mandatory evacuation.  We’ve opened 12 schools as shelters and have more on standby.  My son, Mike, is helping to run one of those shelters.  My school is on alert should we be called.

Our hope is that the storm will take a turn to the east and keep going.  If you look at the photo above you can see that the prediction is Matthew will ravage the coast of Florida then along the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas and then loop back.  Let’s hope not.  Once is more than enough.

To all readers in the path of Matthew, stay safe.