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.

[Pipe_Dream]

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.

[RidgeRunner]

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

[phatdaddy]

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

[RidgeRunner]

Good to be heard from..

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by RidgeRunner

Good to be heard from..

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.