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Possible hurricane development - 10-08-2018
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navy2kcoupe
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Hey Rich..........
You making out OK?????
Looks like it's a bad one......
Andy
You making out OK?????
Looks like it's a bad one......
Andy
Connie and I are OK. Power is out all over the place. Talquin Electric showing just 14% or so with power for all of their total subscribers. Not sure about Comcast's equipment, but I'm sure it is just as bad there.
As good a reason as any to take a break from the internet.
85vette
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Hooked up the Toyhauler and headed east. We were going to stop in Madison but no one would rent us any space at the campgrounds there. We got fuel at the truck stop just before they closed and continued on to Lake City. It was a little gusty over there but nothing compared to what we left. The trip there and back was uneventful. The new truck pulled like a freight train and there was no cross wind effect even when passing 18 wheelers.View attachment 6571
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Well, the generator worked like a champ. Ran for nearly 5 straight days. But it only runs the other buildings and not the house. It was bought for the SerpenCo business to keep the animals alive during an extended power outage. It kept the freezer from thawing out, so the food inside all stayed good. Plus is runs the water pump, so had we been home, it would have provided running water for us.
Connie and I bailed out on Tuesday and headed over to the east coast of Florida (Palm Coast). Just got back this afternoon, and power had just been restored this morning. Had a friend checking the place for us, and I told him that as long as the generator was running, then power was still out. So power was out for nearly 5 full days. We were coming back today, regardless. Staying in a motel like the Hampton Inn gets old after a while.
Just had some large branches at the top of a water oak tree (I think that is what it is) snap off and fall in front of the carport. I spent a couple of hours cutting up those branches and hauling them out of the driveway, so that is cleared now. Lots of debris everywhere shaken out of trees, of course. But no damage to any of the buildings anywhere that we have found yet. So we were lucky.
A cursory glance at the citrus trees shows they fared really well. I thought there would be loose fruits blown all over the yard.
Anyway, I highly recommend evacuating when things like this happen. It's pretty stressful worrying about losing your house, but it would be a WHOLE LOT more stressful if you are still in it while thinking that might happen.
Someone on one of my other sites posted the link to this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ofAJSqpLM
That is Toucans in Mexico Beach. Connie and I have eaten there before. But looks like that won't happen again, as Michael appears to have just wiped it off of the map completely.
Connie and I bailed out on Tuesday and headed over to the east coast of Florida (Palm Coast). Just got back this afternoon, and power had just been restored this morning. Had a friend checking the place for us, and I told him that as long as the generator was running, then power was still out. So power was out for nearly 5 full days. We were coming back today, regardless. Staying in a motel like the Hampton Inn gets old after a while.
Just had some large branches at the top of a water oak tree (I think that is what it is) snap off and fall in front of the carport. I spent a couple of hours cutting up those branches and hauling them out of the driveway, so that is cleared now. Lots of debris everywhere shaken out of trees, of course. But no damage to any of the buildings anywhere that we have found yet. So we were lucky.
A cursory glance at the citrus trees shows they fared really well. I thought there would be loose fruits blown all over the yard.
Anyway, I highly recommend evacuating when things like this happen. It's pretty stressful worrying about losing your house, but it would be a WHOLE LOT more stressful if you are still in it while thinking that might happen.
Someone on one of my other sites posted the link to this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ofAJSqpLM
That is Toucans in Mexico Beach. Connie and I have eaten there before. But looks like that won't happen again, as Michael appears to have just wiped it off of the map completely.
CHASZ51
Z51
Seems you were far enough west to miss the core winds. The strongest winds did not go far out from the center.
Actually, we were east of the storm's center at landfall. Straight line distance from Crawfordville to Mexico Beach is about 65 miles.
CHASZ51
Z51
I mean east. 93F in Tampa and broke a record. This is nuts.
Looks like they upgraded the strength of Hurricane Michael to a Category 5 level.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL142018_Michael.pdf
From the looks of things at Mexico Beach, I thought there would be little doubt about that from the beginning.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL142018_Michael.pdf
From the looks of things at Mexico Beach, I thought there would be little doubt about that from the beginning.
CHASZ51
Z51
If it had more time and another 200 miles to go i think it would have been the worst ever with gust over 200mph.
Yeah, I'm not even in the least embarrassed that I decided to get out of Dodge on that one. I'm actually surprised that we didn't have more damage around here.
I actually took some video of Mexico Beach a while back. Have to find it and process it one of these days.
I actually took some video of Mexico Beach a while back. Have to find it and process it one of these days.