They have closed the beaches, although it is still beautiful and sunny.

The hotel is moving everyone staying on the sixth floor and up to lower floors. We are on the second floor.

People are very optimistic the eye of the storm will pass south, therefore requiring no evacuation, but the government may still force evacuation. 

The hotel is moving all of the furniture inside.

We met people from Florida staying here for four weeks, and they aren’t going home. One of them went to my high school (Alexander Hamilton) in Brooklyn in 1953. I graduated in 1962.

The maid told us a story about an old couple who hid from the evacuation during Wilma – they stayed in the resorts all by themselves for three days.

No word yet on an official evacuation.