• Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.

Hurricane Irma

Had a call about noon from a friend in Weston (so FL ) and he's doing fine .He's been pretty much pickled but said he has power,food ,water and two cases of wine left .

He's not flooded although plenty of rain and wind .His C7 is in a safe place even though a couple trees are down .
 
Storm is now down to 120mph and moving due north and about to make landfall much more to the south. Eye looks much smaller and ragged.
 
Winds actually seem calmer now than they did this morning, with a light drizzle off an on. Connie and I spent most of the day putting bolts in holes in beams in the roof of the garage that the builders neglected to put in. I asked them why they were only putting two bolts in when there were 4 holes holding the beams together, and they said that was all they needed. Well, I've had bolts in one of the cabinets planning to do that myself, and decided maybe strengthening up the roof of the garage would be a real good thing to do today. Plus it took our minds off of the approaching storm for a few hours. I figure four holding points per joint HAS to be better than two. Had to move vehicles out of the way for each section as I climbed up on the 12 ft ladder while Connie helped keep it steady for me.

Been meaning to do that for a few years now and decided this storm coming was excellent incentive to do it NOW. I actually just went over to the garage to find a pair of work gloves to bring over to the house and happened to stare up at the ceiling of the garage wondering if any of the tall pine trees nearby might get their tops snapped off and fall on that roof. Last year two trees on the north side of the garage did snap off and fall towards the garage during hurricane Hermine but they were too far away to impact it. That might have been a warning shot for me to heed.

But it is done now.
 
Rich Z said:
Winds actually seem calmer now than they did this morning, with a light drizzle off an on. Connie and I spent most of the day putting bolts in holes in beams in the roof of the garage that the builders neglected to put in. I asked them why they were only putting two bolts in when there were 4 holes holding the beams together, and they said that was all they needed. Well, I've had bolts in one of the cabinets planning to do that myself, and decided maybe strengthening up the roof of the garage would be a real good thing to do today. Plus it took our minds off of the approaching storm for a few hours. I figure four holding points per joint HAS to be better than two. Had to move vehicles out of the way for each section as I climbed up on the 12 ft ladder while Connie helped keep it steady for me.

Been meaning to do that for a few years now and decided this storm coming was excellent incentive to do it NOW. I actually just went over to the garage to find a pair of work gloves to bring over to the house and happened to stare up at the ceiling of the garage wondering if any of the tall pine trees nearby might get their tops snapped off and fall on that roof. Last year two trees on the north side of the garage did snap off and fall towards the garage during hurricane Hermine but they were too far away to impact it. That might have been a warning shot for me to heed.

But it is done now.
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Forward speed is picking up so i don't see it turning west as it is getting picked up. Kinda like a leaf floating in a stream. I think it could go just east of Lakeland.
 
Well, fellas! We've been getting several consecutive momentary outages for the past hour. Might be a sign of things to come and the inevitable and feared sustained outage.
 
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