Getting Through Irma On Little Gas And A Lot Of Luck
NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans finds that planning for a hurricane is often like writing a message on a sandy shore — the plan never lasts long.
It's the toughest question a Floridian has facing an approaching hurricane:
Do I stay or do I go? If I go, where do I go? When do I leave? And how do I get there?
I've lived in St. Petersburg, Florida for 22 years and faced the possibility of at least six hurricanes making landfall in the state. But, until Irma, I never seriously considered evacuating. But Irma's massive size and record wind speed, threatened to turn my home — just a block from a picturesque canal — into a wading
