Irma

[tsubaki]

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.