Matthew made me look at all my "stuff" differently, that's for sure. How strange it was to look around the house and decide what actually mattered, with the bridges closing off evacuation routes. It became very surreal, very quickly.
We came out of a lot better than some, one of my friends didn't their house flooded and they lost one car, but everyone is safe, which is most important.
We live three miles from the coast and at 12 foot elevation, which sounds far away, but when the storm is 700 miles wide, that three miles is pretty small. Luckily, we only lost our patio roof, with some damage to the roof where it was attached. Had to collect patio roof pieces from around the neighborhood lol.
And you nailed it, parked up high for the flooding. The storm surge and high tide occurred simultaneously, our bad luck. Major flooding at Jax Beach.