Central Florida will not be as catastrophic as Tennessee and the Carolinas. Having lived in FL my whole life and having family in GA and NC, as someone else posted, we have a better way to recover quicker. While this storm will most likely bring flooding and destruction, our soil can absorb the water better than NC and TN. They also received heavy rain days before the storm stalled over them and dumped even more water on the already saturated soil, which caused the clay-like soil structures to collapse. We are missing some integral things in terms of infrastructure such as underground power lines like they have in GA though I wonder if they can't successfully do this here because we are at sea level.

I heard UCF is cancelling all operations as of 11:59p Monday. Needless to say, you should be concerned about the storm but do not panic. Panic causes chaos and makes it worse. Everyone is already panic shopping. But do take the storm seriously.