On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 14:10:14 -0400, "Kurt V. Ullman"
wrote:

My daughter in law just flew down to Florida and is on her way to Key
West,if not already there, with girl friends.

Current forecast calls for just rain at worst in KW. They don't even
have tropical storm warnings up further south than Marathon. They aren't
closing any the bridges, so she should be okay. Could be interesting
trying to get back out, but there are worse places to the stranded than KW.

Hurricane parties were started down yonder. "Hurricane parties were
formed by people living in the southern hurricane areas of the United
States, especially in Florida. Events are held by people who, cannot
or choose not to evacuate during a hurricane warning,..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_party#Background