I'm by no means somebody who lives under a rock when it comes to current events, but I was spending a bit of time listening in on the local ham radio repeaters, where I was met by the usual suspects: a bunch of old men talking about the weather. But they actually had some actionable intelligence this time: there's a massive hurricane (Hurricane Ian) headed towards Florida, and I had had no idea.

Ian passed Cuba the other day and is already placed as a Category 3, meaning that winds of 111-129mph are possible and devastating damage is going to take place.

From what I understand (thanks to the old dudes on the radio), there is already quite a bit of traffic from Tampa headed north, and some of the guys I was listening to were trying to get their friends to head towards the Atlantic coast if they couldn't make it out north.

Key West has already seen 70mph winds, and the storm isn't even there yet. There's a storm surge warning along the entire western coast of Florida, and the threat of tornadoes there is very real there right now as well.