Beechlover; I am glad to hear that you are remaining diligent.
Hopefully that north NORTHWESTWARD movement that the NHC is calling for, PRIOR to the NE turn that SHOULD happen in 48 hours or so, will not turn into a northwestward movement, because if it does, people in your area and points westward, will have scarce time to prepare for the storm before he comes so close to the coast as to make preparations, and particularly evacuations, very difficult.
I am not at all confidant of the forecasted track of this storm, for various reasons, including the fact that I have been watching several radars and sat shots, all day long, which show rain showers, thunderstorms and clouds, at various levels of the atmosphere moving from east to west from the Atlantic all the way to the interior coastal plain of Texas. Yes, near the Texas coast, I have seen some upper level clouds moving from the SW to the NE, but another 50 or so miles east, out over the gulf, the air flow looks to be moving from east to west, through a deep layer of the atmosphere.
If I were living on the coast, say anywhere from Ft Walton Beach westward, to as far as the Miss, La state line, I would not take my eyes off this storm for one minute until she has come within 200 miles of the coast and has made that NE turn that NHC says she SHOULD make.
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