I just hope all in the path have either a good place to hunker down and weather it out or get the heck out of Dodge. I went through 3 of those things back in the day and they ain't no fun.
Glad all was well for Pete... like Dave, I had some experience with a couple of storms... not my idea of a fun weekend.
I spent 24 hours trying to get home from the office during Allison and she was just a tropical storm that sat over Houston and rained for 3 days... the parking lot and street at my office had a foot of water... no chance of getting on any freeway to get home, I10 a block from my office had semi trucks floating down the road... water was 6 or 8 feet deep there, half of downtown Houston was under water and I wound up spending about 10 hours in a local funeral home because that was as far as I could get on the way home...we had 18 inches of water in their parking lot and people wading past in the street chest deep in water.
Just before we moved to TN, Rita blew in to Port Arthur about 40 miles away and we had more rain and water... everything we owned was packed in boxes and stacked in the garage waiting for the mover truck... water came up my drive way to within 3 feet of the garage door.
and in 1962 on Guam, Typhoon Karen blew up the mouth of the harbor... sank two Royal Korean gun boats at the dock, washed every tug in the harbor up on dry land, all the boats in the marina at Agana were washed ashore, wiped out the village of Inarajan, leveled it completely... up at ComNavMar where there was a weather station, they had one of those cupped things on a pole to measure wind speed... one of the sailors up there said that at 160 mph, the thing blew away.... down around the naval station gravel was blowing off the roofs and peppering the cars sitting around... they all looked as if someone was going about with a 12 gauge and shooting them with buck shot.
Glad we're far enough inland we won't see any of that.... and I'm on the west side of the mountains, so most of the weather will be blocked.
I do feel for all those in the path... it does look like a disaster. I'm not a praying man, but will offer what I can for their safety.