My family is in Hurricane Irma’s path?and we’re staying
As my two boys, ages three-and-a-half and one-and-a-half, happily watch Paw Patrol, my husband and I are having an urgently whispered conversation about evacuating or staying. We live in West Palm Beach and are currently in the red cone of Hurricane Irma; at the moment Irma is barrelling through the islands south of us, and is on its way to potentially decimating much of our area after tearing through the Florida Keys and Miami.
This morning my husband Darren was hell bent on leaving. Credit that to one part reality setting in, and one part panicked phone calls and texts from family overnight begging us to get out of the way any way we can. Flights have been sold out since Tuesday or Wednesday and are now being cancelled, so our only option for leaving would be to join the caravan of thousands on the packed highway north to? who knows" Jacksonville" Tallahassee" Dallas" But I?ve heard through the Facebook Palm Beach Mom groups that not only is the hurricane tracking north, but the highways are jam packed and moving at a snail?s pace, and people are running out of gas and need rescue trucks to come pick them up. The Governor of Florida issued an emergency number for this issue alone. How that would work with two kids under 4 in tow, I don?t want to find out. So we decide to stay. Whether it?s a good or bad decision in the long run, we don?t yet know ? and won?t until it?s all over.
The fact is, no one knows exactly where Irma will hit, so we?re all just r...
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