87% of Highlands County without power, Thursday morning due to high tornado activity. Highlands County has a higher than normal elevation for Florida
Staying with old friends in Miami, concerned that tidal surge would swamp my vehicle if I continued south to the Keys.
We toured my old vehicle haunts in South Miami. A new restoration shop, run by an admitted illegal Brazilian migrant, whose first name was, yup, Milton.
Friends living just north of Tampa, who evacuated inland from Hudson, have just lost power.
In checking their oceanfront cameras, the power is still on, giving them their usual view of the Gulf of Mexico.