Across the state, many residents evacuated in the face of the storm, but others decided to try to ride it out.
The coastal Big Bend area, less populous than Tampa on the peninsula’s west coast or Miami on the east, features pine forests that tower over three-story houses, oaks dripping with Spanish moss mixed into the palms, cattle farms and pecan stands next to seafood markets.At the crossroads in the tiny coastal town of Steinhatchee, population 580, Dustin Bass was busy
On Tuesday, he and his wife Carolyn, 65, were rushing around the house, preparing for the storm with help from friends and neighbors. She was intent on leaving; he was not. Mitch Mitchell said he didn’t want to evacuate and become trapped away from their properties, unable to return to check on them. “There’s quite a bit of concern,” said Prescott, who is also the chaplain of the Cedar Key police and fire departments. “I told them that I’ve been through many hurricanes, my first one was in 1963. But this one is entirely different. We are such a community that when one of us suffers, we all suffer. And this one has the potential of being devastating. No one’s taking it lightly.”
“We wanted to see the beach before it got annihilated,” said Crncevic, who stood in the water with her husband and his parents. The 54-year-old former hospital valet — now out of work since losing his right leg below the knee to diabetes complications — lifted the stone bear statue from his garden and carried it inside. He tied down the chairs below his carport. He found a broom — “to beat the water away,” he said — in case storm surge streamed through his front door.
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