If you are in Gainesville, you should be fine. I can confidently say that after living here most of my life. I was also in SFL in 2004, and visited SWFL after Wilma. We will get at worst a Cat 1 up here, but if it follows the projected path, Miami and the whole SE corridor is F'd, Orlando will get slammed, and Jax will have large amounts of flooding. I pray it pushes out into the Atlantic. The Low pressure front is pushing through Orlando now. I hope it speeds up to help push North quicker. You are right, this will be devastating if it continues as projected.