Life in the danger zone tour [View all]

I'm in North Tampa, the latest track has landfall to the south around Sarasota which would save Tampa Bay from the storm surge, of course that could change at any moment. We expect tropical force winds by noon today, 10/9, and hurricane force by late afternoon.

We haven't had time to clean all the debris from Helene when I lost six fully loaded Papaya and one large banana. The county had no time to begin storm debris pickup, so all the streets are lined with piles of what will become missiles. Milton will take down my remaining Papaya and maybe much much more. I spent a full day putting up Kevlar shutters over all openings in the house, we have a generator at the ready as I expect we will lose power sometime today and will be without for perhaps weeks. I have two networks, Spectrum cable and Frontier fiber to the home, followed by the cell network as long as the cell towers are standing and their generators have fuel, so this will be a test of what survives for how long.

So what is a photographer to do waiting for the apocalypse? Photograph to the last minute like I have since 1970 on the DMZ. To the extent possible, I will be updating a gallery on my site, may even be useful for the insurance, lol.

Depending on conditions, I may ask mnhtnbb to post my October photo entry if I lose all access. Wish us luck!

FWIW, https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/MILTON