Everybody OK out there?
I know we have a few panhandle posters and a few near Tallahassee.
Let us know
Just a few days of work for me getting the business tidied up in SWFL.
We had sustained 60mph here. Nothing too bad for me. Flooding here for those near the wrong waterways though.
Good over here on Kernan where I live. No power loss. No flooding or anything. I think 22 - 23% of some residents in our area are without power though.
Both of my brother's included, since about 12:30 AM - 1:00 AM this morning.
That's with one of them being just a street or two over on Girvin from me and the other way out off of Old Kings Road along Trout River.
My power is still out. Otherwise, everything is fine.
What I find so amazing after these hurricanes is how robust cell towers have become. I’m communicating with someone way out in Columbia county which has a 99% power outage rate. The whole county suffered a lot of damage but the texts continue on. Just amazing.
Didn't feel a thing, but I'm currently about twenty miles from the Canadian border so........
The beaches were without power overnight, we were out 11p to 3a, but everything is back online this morning. No flooding, a few downed trees around in the streets, but otherwise just strong winds.
We lost power at around 10:30 last night and it's still out. Might have to go get more gas for the generator. We also have a few trees/limbs down which is really no big deal and a pond on the very back portion of our property. The soil down there is peat which holds water and doesn't drain well.
Most of our area (Keystone Heights/Melrose) is without power.
Powers out in Palatka it’ll be a while before we come back on, clay electric always comes out here last for some reason
Yeah that's a bummer. I think my brother just got power back at his place over on Girvin. My brother out on Trout River though is still waiting on power and that was as of 15 minutes ago. Not to [BLEEP] on JEA or any power companies. It's not my field of expertise.
However, if you can swing it, this is why I tell people to never depend or rely on anybody but yourself and your immediate family (if you're lucky to even have that).
Always have a stash of back-up battery banks for phones, devices and a good supply of water and dry goods (bag of dry beans runs cheap and you can stock that up for months on end) and a few cans of propane and a grill to connect it with.
If you're really lucky and have the money? Get you a Generator.
(09-27-2024, 12:49 PM)Caldrac Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah that's a bummer. I think my brother just got power back at his place over on Girvin. My brother out on Trout River though is still waiting on power and that was as of 15 minutes ago. Not to [BLEEP] on JEA or any power companies. It's not my field of expertise.
However, if you can swing it, this is why I tell people to never depend or rely on anybody but yourself and your immediate family (if you're lucky to even have that).
Always have a stash of back-up battery banks for phones, devices and a good supply of water and dry goods (bag of dry beans runs cheap and you can stock that up for months on end) and a few cans of propane and a grill to connect it with.
If you're really lucky and have the money? Get you a Generator.
$300 bucks for a small generator keep your fridge and a few lights running, having a couple bags of ice on hand as well. I usually dump tray ice into ziplocks and use those. I have a small swamp cooler A/C that can run as well if absolutely needed.
Edit: the one I have is now $450, guess I should've accounted for inflation...
(09-27-2024, 10:49 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: [ -> ]The beaches were without power overnight, we were out 11p to 3a, but everything is back online this morning. No flooding, a few downed trees around in the streets, but otherwise just strong winds.
South end of the beach never lost power. No flood. I did have to clean up the front yard, it had 4 palm fronds on it.
My power came on around noon. It was off for about 12 hours.
I know a few people who live out in the boonies. They don’t anticipate their power being restored for days.
My brother on Trout River is still without power.
A few trees down around here but nothing in our yard. We have multiple mature trees and some could do some serious damage if they gave way. We lost power for almost exactly 24 hours but back on the grid now. T-mobile network is still messed up but I have internet at least. All in all we were relatively unscathed. Thoughts out to those folks along the gulf coast who took the brunt of it.
Brother still without power as of 5:00 AM this morning.
Our power finally got restored at around 10:00PM last night. The timing was good because I was just about out of fuel for the generator. It was also nice to have air conditioning while we slept.
Hope more folks are getting power back
Anyone heard from Mikey?
I think he is near Tallahassee and was still rebuilding from storm damage when this came along.
I'm OK in Eastern NC. We took a worse wallop from the no-name storm a couple weeks ago. I still haven't heard from my cousin in Western NC. She's 20 minutes from Asheville and there's widespread cell phone and internet outages.
(09-28-2024, 05:50 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: [ -> ]Hope more folks are getting power back
Anyone heard from Mikey?
I think he is near Tallahassee and was still rebuilding from storm damage when this came along.
That's right. I had forgotten about that. He's had bad luck enough. I hope Helene didn't make it any worse.
Here in central NC we got about 12 hours of intermittent wind and heavy rain. Light flickered a bunch but the electricity held. We bought a generator in December 2022 when the whole county lost power thanks to the nut jobs shooting at our power grid but didn't need it.
We have a favorite Airbnb we stay in over in the mountains. I messaged the hostess yesterday to check in on her and her husband. She said their county and one next to it are completely without power, water, landline and internet. Power and phone poles snapped in half. Trees down everywhere. She said it's really, really bad. Water over roads from rivers and creeks flowing down the mountain. There are a lot of creeks and rivers and the area had already been getting a lot of rain so the 23" that fell due to the storm added fuel to that fire. She's hoping linemen can get up there to start making repairs but many roads are washed out so nobody knows how long it will take.
This video will give you a very small idea of the scope of devastation southwestern NC and eastern TN has sustained. FL was just the first in a long line of states affected by Helene.
My husband works as a wastewater operator at a plant in Fayetteville which is east of where we live. He said the water flow coming through the plant is the most he's ever seen and he's been doing this for nearly 30 years. Even Hurricane Florence (2018) didn't cause this much flow and it flooded many areas from the coast to Fayetteville. No hurricane or TS has ever caused this much flow that anyone can remember. A piece of equipment went offline and couldn't be restarted last night.
Stuff like this makes you really realize you only have today so make the best of it because you might have nothing tomorrow. Oh, and if you don't prep, you're not very smart.
Always have non-perishable food, water, batteries, fuel for your grill, etc., so you can deal with whatever else comes up without stressing about food and water.
(09-28-2024, 07:24 PM)anonymous2112 Wrote: [ -> ]I'm OK in Eastern NC. We took a worse wallop from the no-name storm a couple weeks ago. I still haven't heard from my cousin in Western NC. She's 20 minutes from Asheville and there's widespread cell phone and internet outages.
Yes, one of my bandmates is over there south of Asheville and I just finally heard from him.
Has had no cell service, no water, no power etc.
Walked 2 hrs to get a cell signal and check in with everyone
Flooding/washouts in some areas but he says large downed trees in roadways is the main cause for the slow recovery
Folks around him with 4 wheelers and UTVs are making supply runs and stocking themselves and neighbors that weren't prepared