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@Denmen185 My brother-in-law lives near Orlando. He says they will ride it out if it comes. In the last one he got stuck in traffic trying to evacuate. He was in his car to the north when the storm made landfall. Still in his car as the storm moved north. He ended up fine, but he says, "Never again."
I bet another kind of "evacuation" was at play. Effn you know what I mean....
Sandy had a beneficial impact of sorts. So many homes and businesses were destroyed and rebuilt with better insulation and updated A/C that the utility companies had to offer discounts (in those states having such programs) to try to take up the slack of unused capacity. And this occurred on top of the LED switch to TVs and lighting. All (other than the LED) courtesy of the insurance coverage. Hug an agent, okay? (But pay those premiums!)
Not really. It runs from June to November now. It is the peak time, though, Hope this one is an isolated one.
What most people don’t take into account is only a small percentage of storms threaten landfall in highly populated areas like US. We have a couple of dozen storms every year but folks only talk about and remember the bad ones.
I don't think global warming is a joke, but we can sure joke ABOUT it. Dark humor seems hard wired into us 2 legged mammalian folk.
Love that area, had many good memories of family vacation at Melrose / Dafuskie Island before they went under. I’ve seen pictures of the resort and how run down and overgrown everything is . Sad
I’ve actually never taken the ferry over. HHI and Bluffton have grown quite a lot, you’d be surprised.
Dafuskie’s always interesting when an evacuation is ordered. Because you have to take a ferry to get to it, you always have this situation where a few holdouts are basically stranded because they don’t run the ferry during the storm.
As others have stated.....I hope everyone in the affected areas stay safe! I’ll be watching the game today on the road to FT Benning and then will be leading some response efforts in any areas that get hit in GA and possibly Florida if they request our assistance.
Hopefully the latest model prediction is right and Dorian turns up the coastline and back out into the Atlantic. This one is going to stay strong as it gets closer and a direct hit to Florida or SE GA would be devastating.
Y’all stay safe and GO DAWGS!
It's looking better now. Been working on my generator today. Still not running. Probably wont need until Wed . Hope to get going by then
I just watched the first fly over videos of The Bahamas post-Dorian. The only close comparison that comes to mind is video after the Great Tsunami of 2004. Just total devastation.
Andrew in '92 (?) hit Homestead pretty bad.
Some storms are characterized by their destructive winds. Sometimes rainfall. And the worst case is that storm surge IMO.
Katrina was a cat. 5 but lost a lot of power by the time it made landfall. A strong cat 3, but with a 25 foot storm surge. More like a cat 5 really, but with less wind.
Did you get it running? Had to pull the carb on mine last year and give it a thorough cleaning.
The Bahamas are different from most of The Caribbean, it's very flat in most areas. The reported 20 ft surge was pretty similar to a tsunami, add in 175mph winds and the fact it went on for many hours it's a wonder it didn't just wash away.
We did today at work. Gas was reaching the carb but not the spark plug. I knew that Saturday, but hadn't cleaned a carburetor before. I do now. I actually took it apart Saturday and sprayed it, but one orifice was really clogged.
Ethanol. We had a thread about that way back. We use ethanol free at work. Going to that at home. Generator had only been ran twice
We're good to go Ghost. Wife was worried about all the stuff in the freezer. She puts up veggies and what not