Irma
 

hope my house and my boat survive the hurricane. Prepared for the worst and praying for the best!

It did Andrew!

It did Andrew!

Our thoughts and particularly prayers are with you guys down there.

Hope you guys pull through this without much loss or pain.
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Our family is all well, lost some fences and trees but our house is still holding up. The worst is past Miami although we still have some gust winds in the 50 mph. The V20 survived, haven't been able to check her but is still standing proud in the trailer.
Thanks for your prayers!

Good news, thanks for checking in. We're on the dry side of the storm, supposed to be a cat 1 by the time it gets here.

Now we gotta see what the other 3 are doing

Glad to hear good news from some of our FL members.

Hope Ferm and his family are ok.
Doesn't he lives east of Clearwater/Tarpon Springs- Pinellas county?

Glad you made it through ok, praying for everyone in Irma's path.

also wondered about keyv20, he lives on big coppitt key, which is pretty close to cudjoe, where the eye hit. hope hes ok

Glad everybody made it through Irma. She was a bad one! I got a grandaughter that lives in Hollywood Florida, haven't heard from her yet.

We made it through the storm fine. Once they forecasted 100-120 mph winds for my area, we loaded up the travel trailer, and were gone. We have some friends in Slidell that let us park for free, and it was plenty far enough away. We got back this morning hoping to save what we could. No major damage to anything, mostly storm debris, and we lost everything in the fridge in the house from 36 hours of no power. Still rockin the generator, but we made it through in 1 piece.

Ferm,
Glad to hear that you and your family are ok. Video footage from around Clearwater area was scary.

Glad to hear yall are safe with no major damage Ferm.

Glad to hear good news from all.
Best I can tell we had 41" above the regular forecast tide.
Several subdivisions inundated from salt water intrusion into homes. Thankfully we didn't have any problems.
bradford, y'all have any problems with the surge?

Drove through it as Betz creek covered Walthour rd and Oemler Loop going to help a friend with his generator. It flooded most of Offshore subdivision. My brother in law had 16 inches in the house on the north end of Tybee Island off of Bay St. No flooding at my house thank God, and no downed trees this time, just debris. Took two 14 foot trailer loads to the dump. Power came back on today too. Only out 3 days, not too bad, praying for those with real problems.

Zoom in and you can check out aerial views of the keys. Feel bad for the folks there.

https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/irma/index.html

Two new tide gauges were installed a few days before the storm at Turners Creek @ Hwy80 and the Herb River @ LaRoche Ave. Each gauge recorded about 34" higher at the 2pm tide than the previous high tide at 2am.
Ft. Pulaski stopped reading a couple of hours before the high tide.

I left Thursday before the storm to prepare our growing facility that is 30 miles away from Savannah and was unable (unwilling) to return due to the mass exodus. Even then fuel and supplies were out sporadically all across Chatham County. We delivered plants in Columbus on Wednesday before the storm, none of the major chain stores there had generators or 5 gallon fuel cans available. I-95 southbound at I-16 was at a crawl yesterday at noon.
Yesterday we stopped by Food Lion on White Bluff Rd. There were no frozen or refrigerated products available but they were open!
True to nature of Savannah, there was ample beer and wine on the shelf.

Glad you guys did okay, as did we. All my Florida friends did well. I wish everyone down there could say the same.

Bradford, that link is incredible.

I scrambled to get the boats out of Suwannee. Drug them back to Lakeland where the eye passed damn close if not directly over my house. Estimate of sustained winds near 80 with gusts of 100. It was rocking the vehicles in the driveway like no tomorrow. No power for 5 days. No structural damage at my house, just lots of debris. Suwannee was untouched with the exception of a couple fallen trees and yard debris. We dodged another one there but got nailed in Lakeland. It could have been worse. Long long week to say the very least. I didn't realize so many north of us(FL) had flood water and damage.. Trying to sleep without A/C is a PITA. Generator duty sucks the big one too.. But thankful to have one to preserve the meat in the freezer.

Traveling to and from Suwannee I had the opportunity to drive through Brooksville, Homasassa, Crystal River, Dade City. All had power outages but the most trees were down around Brooksville, just north of the Fermanator. Lakeland had 500 trees in the roadway to clear, then spent three full days getting traffic lights and critical needs power restored. They did a great job considering the magnitude of the power grid failures, statewide. I saw Ohio Linemen in a convoy heading south on HWY 19. Thanks to all that helped.

The lower keys are mostly uninhabitable coming from a good source, it is worse than they are letting on. Bodies floating in canals and the like.. God help the survivors, they are going to need it. V

Good to hear from u ridge, glad it was more of a nuisance than catastrophic. In-laws live north of Valdosta and the were without power for 6 days. They tried to get us to go there, since the storm kept tracking west. We tried to tell them it was going to be worse where they were.

We lost power for a couple of hours 2 or 3 times, but thats a normal weekend thing here.

Keeping an eye on Maria now

Good to be heard from..:sun:

My Cousin lives in Lakeland. We finally heard from him the other day. Said just about the same thing you just did about trees down all over the place. They came thru ok, just some minor wind damage to their home and lots of debris. Glad you and everyone made it thru ok. :clap: