by Soyez Ferme, Survival Blog:
Date and Location: October 9, 2024 — West Coast of Florida, under the eye of Hurricane Milton, inland from landfall.
Hurricane winds howled outside, and the rain pelted the windows when the lights flickered for the final time and died. On the darkest of nights as Hurricane Milton unleashed its fury on our rural Florida bunker, my mom confidently stated, “I feel safe here.” After a long, and mostly sleepless night, we rose before dawn to walk the property. What follows is a breakdown of the good, the bad and the ugly of our preparedness strategy for weathering a vicious storm.