I think that at first everyone expected the storm to go towards Louisiana or Texas like it usually does.

Or, once going over Cuba it would lose steam, as it usually does.

Finally, in my fam's particular case, nowhere to go, not a lot of income, this sort of thing. In my Mom's case, her husband is kind of infirm and hard to drag anywhere...

There's a whole senior thing in Florida that kind of limits options.

I regret that I didn't pay much attention or take it seriously until 2 days ago, or I would've flown my Mom up here but I'm not sure the logistics of how that would've worked with her husband and his condition(s) anyway.