Lightning coach Barry Melrose and wife Cindy last week found a home in the Tampa area to rent for the upcoming season. Melrose said he and Cindy already bought furniture. But when reports began coming out that Tropical Storm Fay could turn into Hurricane Fay and (at the time) was headed, it seemed, straight for the Tampa Bay area, Melrose and Cindy flew out of town to their home in Glens Falls, N.Y.

"We were going to stay but with the weather looking the way it did, we left early," Melrose said.

Told the newest storm track had the brunt of the storm missing the area to the east. Melrose allowed he had been told by hurricane-savvy Floridians the storm was not going to be much to worry about, relative to some of the other huge storms that have come through the state.

"I know it's not going to hit there, as you experienced Floridians say," Melrose said. "But I didn't want to get caught with my pants down."