Some of the Florida contingent, and the southern Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, East Texas contingent, will show up: they are immune to Florida in August. The last time I was in Florida in summer, it rained hard the entire time, and the temperature was about 85. The rental car’s windows were fogging on the outside (the A/C was on full blast) and my hotel room was cold but humid. This is a place that depends on A/C for survival.
And about Super Storm Trump: for a while, we actually did have a “tropical storm watch” in central NJ until the path was finalized. It went up the ocean side of the coast – we got two one hour blasts of heavy rain, something you wouldn’t think twice about around here. For someone who grew up in NYC and lives in Palm Beach, you’d think he’s experienced coastal storms before. (And Trump Tower is badly enough built that it might disintegrate in a Cat 5 storm.)