At the beginning of the month Tropical Storm Matthew formed in the Caribbean just like any other storm.
It was upgraded to hurricane status and it’s path showed to be close to St. Augustine. As no major storm had hit St. Augustine in a long time, nobody was really worried.
The flood evacuation zones were close to us, but did not include us by October 4th. Robert our neighbor, and ex-FEMA reporter, had already send his wife off to the Florida Panhandle and advised it would be better for us to leave.
We figured since the evacuation zone did not include us yet, we could stay put and wait for things to develop.
During the night of October 5th to 6th, the evacuation zone was changed as the hurricane intensified and now included our condo. Now Robert got really worried and more than urged us to get out.
We called around and found a campground in Live Oak, FL that could accommodate us for 3 days and a campground in Georgia for another 4 days.
So we loaded up the RV and headed out like so many others
just to get trapped in traffic. It took us more almost 6 hours to travel the 120 miles/200 km to the Campground. On the way Frank’s leg was acting up and we thought it must have been the cramps he experienced at Compass RV the week before.