First and foremost, there is no Hurricane Karen. It is a figment of Jim Canotore’s brain.
Our airport is shut down, the Destin Seafood Festival is cancelled, the county has declared a “state of emergency” and cancelled all scheduled weekend school events, blah blah blah ad nauseum.
OK, we get it, err on the side of caution. But local reaction appears more a reflection of weather channel hysteria than reality. Want to know what a storm is going to do? Go to the docks or the downtown Destin Waffle House early in the morning and you will be in the company of the greatest weather prognosticators in the area. They all concluded early-on that this was to be a non-event. Most folks around here trust them far greater than Jim Cantore or anyone at the National Weather Service.
Tomorrow will prove them right or wrong 🙂