Dorian

[Destroyer]

Just want to wish all our friends and neighbors along the east coast good luck and caution them to be safe, not sorry. This storm is a killer and can easily veer to the left and slam headlong into any state along it's projected tract. Good luck and God bless to all of you.

[phatdaddy]

This one has been a strange one, probably the slowest storm i can remember. Early models had it crossing the state and getting in the gulf. Looks like now it s turned into a very slow soggy cat 2.

Like D said, good luck guys , be safe

[bradford]

Got things buttoned down, trawler hauled out and on the hard. I always think one of the worse things is waiting around watching it on the updates. If any of y'all are interested Chris Parker Marine Weather does an hour or so discussion every night at six. His forecasts are usually paid, subscription only, but he's doing free hurricane forecasts on Dorian until the threat is over. A very knowledgeable forecaster without all the weather channel drama, much better than Mike's weather page I feel too.

Light to moderate rain here now with the wind out of the NNE, gusty winds but nothing too bad yet, the surge isn't supposed to be at high tide so that's good.

Really sad about the Bahamas, the wifey and I have been planning our first big offshore cruise to the Abacos since May.

Y'all stay safe

[phatdaddy]

When this thing was supposed to cross Florida and get in the gulf, we were really stressing out. Was hoping that ridge would move on down and push it out to sea.

We were in the eyewall for 3 hours, i cant fathom 30 hours. Our insurance company didnt believe that all our windows were compromised , they have been leaking everytime it rains since the storm. So they sent a structural engineer to verify my claim. According to his report we were 11 miles from the center of the eye, right in the edge of the eyewall. I am about 4 miles from Tyndall AFB which recorded surface wind speeds of 106. But we only got 6 inches of rain.

So just hunker down, stay safe, and check back in when u can

[spareparts]

steady 40 mph winds gusting to about 65. Got a couple trees down, but nothing major. Supposed to peak around 2. Then I'm worried about the Sneads Ferry house tonight and into tomorrow

[Blue_Runner]

Worried about my parents house in Surfside SC. Seems to be right in the path. No one is there thankfully, so we'll have to wait and see how it turns out. Bad think it is scheduled to hit there right about the same time as high tide. House is at least 1/2 mile inland so not too worried about surge, moreso worried about rain/runoff flooding as the house is on a slab foundation. Hope all my favorite places - bait shops, boat ramp, restaurants, marshwalk, etc. pull thru!

[bradford]

Praying for y'all up there, mostly just tree debris here. Savannah dodges another one.

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by bradford

Praying for y'all up there, mostly just tree debris here. Savannah dodges another one.

[Pipe_Dream]

Originally Posted by bradford

Praying for y'all up there, mostly just tree debris here. Savannah dodges another one.

Glad you all are okay. Same for us on Hilton Head. A lot of tree litter to clean up, but I'll take that as opposed to worse and be happy. Hauled out the ol' PD Sunday evening and moved it to shop at work. (As Linda Ronstadt sang, "I learned my lesson, it left a scar.") Packed up our household Tuesday and left Wednesday morning for Aiken, only to turn around and return yesterday (Thursday).

Sitting in the hotel in Aiken Thursday morning and watching the weather channel, they interviewed our mayor by phone, who said "we lost about a dozen trees." Hell, there were that many big trees down within a mile of our house, much less on the entire island. He went on to say that no one on the island lost power. Not 3 minutes later a reporter says there are 6,000 on the island without power. I don't know what he was thinking. Or drinking. The worst of it seems to have been confined to the immediate coast. Inland just a couple miles I can't tell anything happened. Thankful Dorian didn't come as close to us as Matthew did.

Hoping and praying for all of those up the coast from us, and for the people of the Bahamas. They need all they can get.

[cfelton]

Glad everyone made it through Dorian ok. We had wind and rain but not too bad. Lost power for a day but generator covered that well. Hope that's the last one for this season, have to wait and see.