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Editorial: Stay inside and informed as we ride out the storm


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By the time most of our readers see this, storm preparations will have been completed and we will be waiting to see how much of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Fay we get.

In the meantime, the best thing all of us can do is take cover and be safe.

That means staying informed.

Stay tuned to what is happening. Know when it is safe to go back outside and what parts of Southwest Florida we may be asked to avoid.

If there is damage and hardship, we will get through it like we do everything else — together.

We issue thanks in advance for all the professionals and volunteers who step up their efforts on such occasions for the community’s safety and welfare.

Hopefully by now those people include helpers of political candidates who had all those signs — potential missiles — out there along busy roads.

Hopefully further, we hope we will be able to chalk up Fay as a good test — a rare exercise in the past three years. This hurricane season 2008 has a long way to go.

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