IRMA

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:33 pm

Any of you southern gents in Irma's path?

If I was in Fla, I'd be gettin outta Dodge....
Looks bad.

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 4:14 pm

Bee-Jay
I'm in West Palm Beach....another, Danny Cool Beans is in Miami. Danny is a Metro Dade Fireman so is part of the emergency response team. For me? 58 years down here and not my first rodeo. Getting out says easy, does hard, as there are only a few roads that get you out and millions out there. Traffic since Thursday has been gridlock, and the path currently, right up the state, so its worse to be in a car on the road and have it catch you with gas hard to find also. Circumstance leads us to stay. All here are well prepared, and it's in the Creators hands as to the outcome. Thanks for your concern buddy!

Wayne

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 4:27 pm

I can't begin to imagine what you folks are going through.

God bless you.

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 5:37 pm

hang in there. it's going to be a wild ride.
thoughts out to you and comrades in Texas.

Here at work (Generator Svc Co) we already have most of our Trailer mounted sets heading south.

I think we'll be taking in animals at the Shelter I help run too. Problem seems is getting them transport up here....

keep us updated as it plays out if you can.

Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:58 am

I am about two hundred miles north of Wayne, but still in Irma's path. It really is
a cluster fuck out there. Water and gasoline are the 2 hardest things to find right now.
Traffic is unbelievable north bound, even on the rural back roads where we live, thanks
in part, to GPS systems. Got our generator up and running, hunkering down and hoping
for the best.

Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 4:17 am

Good luck to everyone in the firing line.

Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:45 am

Indeed, stay safe.

Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 11:15 am

All my family is in South East ga. They are preparing too, stay safe guys!

Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 4:45 pm

How did you guys make out?

Hawk Joined: Jul 21, 2015 Posts: 509 Location: Norway

yeah how was it? i watched some live streams from florida. didn't look that bad really.. from afar. everyone's okay?

Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 6:05 pm

I have friends who's family lives in Naples. They rode it out with 110mph winds at their house but they are ok. My parents are in Ga with no power but it's not too bad there. My wife and kids just fly down to Ga this morning, catching an earlier flight in hopes of not getting delayed. Arrived ok with no delays. Kids even got to sit in the pilots seats once they were landed! Lots of rain and some wind.

How is everyone else in FL? many still without power I suspect...

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:36 pm

We haven't heard from Terry (Grumpy32) in Summerfield yet. Sunday morning he had a weather related post at the other site... He has a decent generator (+ fuel) but maybe no net? Hope he still has a roof and a dry floor.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 2:03 pm

I would imagine most communications are down, phone, cell, cable etc. because of major power grid outages.
Everything relies on power nowadays, so no juice, no communicating.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:23 pm

My folks live in Edgewater 20 mi south of Daytona. They had given in to being flooded but nothing really happened except strong winds all night and rain. They did not lose power.

MB-5 Joined: Apr 23, 2015 Posts: 6 Location: FL

grumpy live in sumter co that part of central fl got hit good still a lot of people are still out of power (internet and cable) just a general update

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:58 pm

im in west palm we where very lucky here

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:39 pm

genesound wrote:

We haven't heard from Terry (Grumpy32) in Summerfield yet. Sunday morning he had a weather related post at the other site... He has a decent generator (+ fuel) but maybe no net? Hope he still has a roof and a dry floor.

Hey everyone, I'm back... Gene nailed it. We didn't lose power, but did lose phone and internet like geepster said.
Finally got it back an hour ago. I've got a lot of big oaks and limbs to clean up and burn now... need firewood anyone.

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:56 pm

There's some work

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 7:20 pm

Hondo57 wrote:

There's some work

You got that right... that will have to wait until the weather cools off.

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 12:18 am

That'll be a lot of firewood in a year, or maybe some hand sawn lumber, maybe some beams.

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:20 am

genesound wrote:

That'll be a lot of firewood in a year, or maybe some hand sawn lumber, maybe some beams.

What it's mostly going to be is a lot of work. Wink

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 11:18 pm

Maybe you can sell that wood as is and they cut and remove? I have done that before and it will save your back

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:26 am

Hondo57 wrote:

Maybe you can sell that wood as is and they cut and remove? I have done that before and it will save your back

I tried that after one hurricane years back. No one I contacted wanted the 30-40 pine logs. Said it wasn't worth it
for just one truck load. Besides, the tree in the picture is probably rotten in the middle. That's why it came down.

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 7:04 pm

Thanks for all the well wishes guys. It sucked cuz we got hit twice. Once as it moved west then again when it went north. Luckily this time we were only without power one day!!! But sadly there are still people in the area still out. No damage to the house which was a blessing, but lots of tree damage. Still nothing compared to what Puerto Rico is going through!!! I work nearly in Miami and it was worse down here. I saw the bands on the radar at the time that were right in this area and they were pretty severe. The Overseas Highway to the Keys is closed still and only open to responders and emergency vehicles. Key West was hit very very hard.....thanks all for thinking about us.

Wayne

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 9:32 pm

I am glad to hear that you got through alright Wayne. Was thinking about you and all the toys in the garage.

Hawk Joined: Sep 05, 2008 Posts: 502 Location: Orlando FL

I was without power for about 4 days. We don't own a generator so we took the dogs and went and stayed with friends. Lost a bunch of shingles from the roof and had damage to soffit as well. I don't know what insurance is going to say. Adjuster came out and measured everything and said I'd hear back in a couple weeks.

It was a pretty wicked storm even in Central Florida. I lot of big trees down. I waited it for the worst of it to come through my area. I had no power but cell data was working so I was streaming the local news. When the worst of it came through we all piled into the laundry room which has no windows.

There was a lot of embarrassing complaining on social media about the power not coming back up everywhere quickly enough.

I figure I'll post a picture of how I tie down my stuff. Figure you guys might get a kick out of it.... I made the cargo net out of 600 ft of 3/8" rope. I did it last year for Hurricane Matthew and it took me 4 hours to make.