According to my parents this is my second hurricane experience. The first was when I was almost 2 years old, I don't remember that. Now am 7 and this is my second and its called Matthew. My family has prepared as much as they can by securing everything on the outside and raised quite a bit of stuff on the inside, just incase of flooding. 

Its starting with quite a lot of wind and according to the hurricane tracker its 60 miles SSE of Nassau where I live.

Inside is very cozy and not humid at all. Watching trees sway and hearing the wind pound on the house is a little scary and reminds me of movie scene. According to the folks at ZNS the eye of this storm is about 40 miles wide. What this means for us is that based on the predicting path both the island of Andros and New Providence. This means we'll be hit by 125 miles per hour winds while the storm crawls through the islands at about 10 miles per hour.

It is important to note that the high tide is around 12 PM and the storm passes us around the same time. The expected storm surge is about 15 feet, while the regular high tide comes in at 4ft. If my addition serves me well that will be a total of approximately 19 ft in the rise of the water on the coast.

Residents seemed not to have been prepared until yesterday but they finally heeded the warnings and have found the shelters and secured homes.

Our local ZNS has coverage.