This one looks like might be much much worse than "another bad hurricane".  This one could be the worst hurricane in a few hundred years.  

50 foot waves and 140 mph winds?  Crazy!  Stay safe and here's hoping it dies out at sea

Stay safe TPM. Glad it's not heading to TX, but wouldn't wish that on anyone. My wife's 87 yr old grandmother lives in Ocala, hoping it doesn't go her way.

TPM posted:

Hard to believe that another bad hurricane is about to hit the US.

Unfortunately I reside in southeast Florida, so we are expecting some really bad weather. We began preparing over the weekend, as has  THE ENTIRE STATE OF FLORIDA. Evacuation of the Keys is mandatory, as there is only ONE road in and out. We are hoping for the best.

If you live in Florida, or any of the bordering states be prepared! 

Please take action and don't wait till it's too late.  This is serious nasty stuff.  I'm hoping it dies down some before hit hit's Florida, but it's not looking good at this point.  So, I'm really hoping you and your family there will be safe and dry . . .as well as all those in the target area too.  

BEST wishes and good luck.

We live outside of Orlando!!  Fortunately we have a safe room with backup generator and have stock piled loads of stuff just in case.  The previous owners built the safe room after a hurricane in 05 which took off roof and lots of major damage.  Hope all are safe! Say prayers!!  Just had daughter's wedding and luckily their honeymoon is in Belize not the Caribbean.

Good luck TPM, I feel for you lived there a few years and went through Andrew and others.  Not a pleasant experience. Hope for the best and prepare for worst.  Stock up on plenty wine.

Stay safe TPM, i hope the family stays safe and Irma slows a bit before landfall in Florida. 

Good luck TPM and stay safe. If it starts getting crazy, don't hesitate to evacuate. Hopefully, Irma loses strength before making landfall.

I am praying for safety for all those in Irma's path. Hard to believe back to back disasters. Property will be lost, but that can be replaced, lives cannot. My thoughts and prayers will be with you TPM. Stay safe. 

Barb, you know you & family are in my prayers! Please stay safe!! You've got experience with these things...gonna be fine! I'll try to pm you in a few days...

We've made some progress...power poles went up on my road yesterday, so maybe elec by the 12th...Sewer leaks, so no septic...no timeline yet...

Take care, Florida posters!! Texans are with you!

fenway, floridafan, others, ya'll check in, please!

PlayWithEffort posted:

Good luck TPM and stay safe. If it starts getting crazy, don't hesitate to evacuate. Hopefully, Irma loses strength before making landfall.

 

It doesn't work like that.  You evacuate early, or you stay in place.  

TPM and the rest of my FL friends, please stay safe!  I lived through a CAT 4 direct hit (Ivan in Pensacola) and I swore I would never ride out another hurricane again.  For those of you that are not going to evacuate, regardless of where the storm hits, please be safe. 

Stay safe TPM. Living in the Carolinas I have never gotten used to these things. The constant roar, the wind making it feel like the house is about to explode, the rain that is just ridiculous. Fran was the worst one I went through. We had no power for 9 days. Trees down everywhere. This one is going to be very bad it appears. Please pray for everyone that will affected by this storm. The flooding and wind damage has the potential to be enormous. I have found myself praying it will go left only to feel guilty that this will result in others suffering. I just pray for those that will be impacted and hope everyone is safe.

Went out at 1 AM to gas up the wife's van and still waited in line for half an hour...

Probably going to send her and the youngest north tomorrow. Either Orlando or Knoxville depending on how things are looking.  

The company I work for handles deliveries of emergency supplies to Home Depot, so we are going to be operating as long as possible to keep the stores stocked.  That means the older kid and myself will be here until at least late Friday to close up and secure the facility. His girlfriend's father has a well fortified and equipped house, so we may hunker down there. Our house is surrounded by large oak trees, which aren't designed to deal with hurricanes...

On the plus side, the giant lifted truck / redneck-mobile my son drives will come in handy for navigating the debris covered post-storm streets.

If anyone can take on a hurricane it's TPM.... seriously, thinking of you guys last night watching the weather... be safe..

Rob T posted:

On the plus side, the giant lifted truck / redneck-mobile my son drives will come in handy for navigating the debris covered post-storm streets.

#Merica

Add me to the list of those praying for everyone in Irma's path.  Looks to be a monster.

Shoveit4Ks posted:

Rob T posted:

On the plus side, the giant lifted truck / redneck-mobile my son drives will come in handy for navigating the debris covered post-storm streets.

#Merica

Seven and a half feet of pure mud covered patriotism.

TPM, Rob T and our other Florida families...  I'm praying for you folks and your loved ones. 

Good luck to all in FL.  My mom lives in Clermont.  Normally they just sit out the Hurricanes as they are far enough inland to not worry too much about them.  They have plans to head out of FL for this one if the path keeps heading towards them.  No safe room, and a house with lots of glass.

Best of luck, TPM.

Rob, we have one of those, Ford 150 edition!

I do have to admit, it's starting to get a little scary. Both Rob and I live in the same county, Broward, he is closer to Miami in Dade County  I am closer to Boca Raton in Palm Beach County. The name of my city is Coconut Creek. We live in a suburb of Pompano Beach.

I live about 8-10 miles inland, and not in a flood zone. In 40 years have only been through one bad hurricane, Wilma. It wasn't pleasant.

The problem is that at this point, no one really knows where Irma will come,  a large part of this unless one leaves now or tomorrow morning is that the cone is all of Floridz, you could get caught in the storm, as it takes 7 hours from here to leave the state. Then there is the gas factor. All 67 counties are preparing for the storm. 

We are praying that the eye of the storm, doesn't hit south Florida.

Until we know further we will remain home, but have the option to go to daughters who is farther southwest in Davie. They have a huge home, generators, and lots of room.

Thank you all. Keep all of Florida in your prayers.

Florida State Fan posted:

Good luck TPM, I feel for you lived there a few years and went through Andrew and others.  Not a pleasant experience. Hope for the best and prepare for worst.  Stock up on plenty wine.

Wine all covered!

Good luck to those in Florida. 

TPM, prayers for you & Paul and family. Yes, once you reach a certain point, you just have to stay and hope for the best. We will all be anxious for you and hopefully Irma will continue to move more and more eastward, way off the coast.

RFF

TPM posted:

Rob, we have one of those, Ford 150 edition!

I do have to admit, it's starting to get a little scary. Both Rob and I live in the same county, Broward, he is closer to Miami in Dade County  I am closer to Boca Raton in Palm Beach County. The name of my city is Coconut Creek. We live in a suburb of Pompano Beach.

I live about 8-10 miles inland, and not in a flood zone. In 40 years have only been through one bad hurricane, Wilma. It wasn't pleasant.

The problem is that at this point, no one really knows where Irma will come,  a large part of this unless one leaves now or tomorrow morning is that the cone is all of Floridz, you could get caught in the storm, as it takes 7 hours from here to leave the state. Then there is the gas factor. All 67 counties are preparing for the storm. 

We are praying that the eye of the storm, doesn't hit south Florida.

Until we know further we will remain home, but have the option to go to daughters who is farther southwest in Davie. They have a huge home, generators, and lots of room.

Thank you all. Keep all of Florida in your prayers.

 

We chose to stay for Harvey.  Would rather deal with dangers I know than dangers I can't see that could come from evacuating.  You lose control once evacuating.

The worst that could have happened where I live is to have the ground floor flooded, lose power/water/sewer and have to live upstairs in a flooded house for a week.  With four people, two dogs, a cat and a guinea pig.  Miserable.

The worst that could have happened evacuating is to stuck in standstill traffic, flooded at roadside, rescued (or drowned), put into a shelter and not being allowed to leave for a couple weeks.  With the same four people, two dogs, cat, guinea pig.

Every situation is different.

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TPM, Rob T and all others who live in South Florida, our thoughts and prayers are with you all. 

It's not the flooding but the winds and where the eye will come through. The eye wall is the killer. Right now they have the eye passing by our area, so we would have to relocate.

Please be safe!

Be safe all. You are all in my prayers. Good luck.

While checking on updates for elec & water, I came by this on our Rockport/ Fulton Living fb page...hope it will bring a momentary smile to our Fla Folks as they try dodging this next punch out! Everyone Stay SAFE! Please evacuate!

Looks like it shifted again....if the Traffic in Atlanta is unreal with multiple Florida tags I can't imagine what the roads are like in Florida.

Stay safe all.

CaCO3Girl posted:

Looks like it shifted again....if the Traffic in Atlanta is unreal with multiple Florida tags I can't imagine what the roads are like in Florida.

Stay safe all.

My sister left Orlando with 4 kids and two dogs last night at 2:00AM headed to Atlanta where dad was for work, and they haven't gotten out of the state yet (8 hours) and counting.  Now looking like they probably should have stayed put. 

CaCO3Girl posted:

Looks like it shifted again....if the Traffic in Atlanta is unreal with multiple Florida tags I can't imagine what the roads are like in Florida.

Stay safe all.

Atlanta traffic was crazy this afternoon.  Lots of FL tags.

Who's on First? posted:

CaCO3Girl posted:

Looks like it shifted again....if the Traffic in Atlanta is unreal with multiple Florida tags I can't imagine what the roads are like in Florida.

Stay safe all.

Atlanta traffic was crazy this afternoon.  Lots of FL tags.

I'd say 20% FL, 5% TN, and a whole lot more tractor trailers than usual.

Sending out good thoughts and prayers for the safety of everyone in Florida. 

Uggh. Looks like they are now considering an evacuation order for the entire state - 20 million people. It would be like ordering an evacuation of Austria and Switzerland combined.

Goblue33 posted:

CaCO3Girl posted:

Looks like it shifted again....if the Traffic in Atlanta is unreal with multiple Florida tags I can't imagine what the roads are like in Florida.

Stay safe all.

My sister left Orlando with 4 kids and two dogs last night at 2:00AM headed to Atlanta where dad was for work, and they haven't gotten out of the state yet (8 hours) and counting.  Now looking like they probably should have stayed put. 

uggg.  my mon is leaving orlando area tonight around 2am heading to macon.  hopefully that gives them enough time.

I'm one of the crazy people that deal with Atlanta area traffic everyday and it's been insane the last day or so... I haven't minded it ONE bit as I'm seeing many Florida plates which tells me a lot of our neighbors have gotten out of IRMA's way! My normal 20-30 minute evening commute was pushing 2 hours tonight and again, I had no problem with it as I saw so many Florida plates sitting in it with me. Stay safe everyone that is involved with this monster! 

The storm track has shifted way west. The biggest damage will be the storm surge on the coastal areas, probably the Keys will suffer the most.

As far as the entire state evacuating, those orders were for coastal areas and mobile homes.  The more our Governor put on a show, the more money, gas, supplies he received from FEMA. While most of us floridians prepare, officials know how to induce panic.  No our homes are not going to look like those of the Carribean after the storm.

Cat 4 will be tough, we may lose power, but I personally don't think this storm will be catastrophic. People in low lying areas in homes did not have to flee the state.  

Thank you all for you concerns. We are safe, in good company.

Good to hear an update!!!

Irma, like any strong woman, has a mind of her own. Will be pretty much hugging the west coast of Florida.

My area expecting about 90 mph wind gusts rain, which we will take anydaý.

Thanks for the update TPM, and to all Floridians stay safe. 

Update...prime target now Tampa, not Miami.

Would it be in poor taste to say I hope she takes out the Trop?  Probably, but ah, heck, I'll say it anyway. I hope all the people of the "other bay area" stay safe, and the Trop takes all that Irma can dish out.

My sister lives north of Tampa (Lutz) and they are hunkered down, waiting for the storm.  There has been a mandatory evacuation order but only for those in flood zones and those in mobile homes.  If you haven't left by now, might as well stay put unless in a flood zone or a mobile home.

Has been a rough 24 hours but we are good! Not something that we wish to do again for a long time. I haven't been home yet but my neighbor said he hasn't had a chance to access any damage, lots of people had leaks they never knew existed until Irma.    

Since we had no power here at daughters, just now getting a chance to watch the news.  Hope that everyone survived the storm.

Every news person who has said "Irma is ONLY a catagory 2 hurricane now" should be fired.  What's a mear 100 mph winds in the scheme of things? Idiots.

School closed Monday and Tuesday, an hour north of Atlanta. My boss called and said not to come in.  Governor has said to stay off the roads until given the all clear. Atlanta buildings already have pieces flying off.  We still don't know what we are in for.

Just got power back about 30 mins ago. We didn't have any real damage,  but there are a ton of trees down in the neighborhood. We used the redneck mobile to drag a couple of large trees out of the street so that there is a route to get out of our neighborhood to the main roads. We were probably 100 miles or so from the eye and the winds gusted to hurricane strength, but I don't think they stayed there consistently. 

Heard from my mom and sister all good. Lots of water and debris everywhere. Miami dodged a silver bullet for sure.    

The whole state dogged a bullet. Just trees down, power lines. Lots of lessons learned after Wilma.

We were prepared.

Update. The worst part f the storm seems to be taking place on the east coast, record flooding in  Orlando up to Jax. 10 deaths reported in Florida Keys.

No damage at my sisters house just north of Tampa.   Small limbs down and backyard flooded, but no water came in the house.   Never lost power, but it did blink a few times.

Does anyone have info on how Ft Myers faired?

My prayers and thoughts are with everyone affected by Irma. Stay safe!

Birdman14, sent you a PM

TPM posted:

The whole state dogged a bullet. Just trees down, power lines. Lots of lessons learned after Wilma.

We were prepared.

I take this back. After watching the news, the Keys have been devastated. Jacksonville major flooding and several communities along the west coast flooded or torn apart.

6.5 million people are without power.

I am very lucky . How we managed to come home to power and a few water spots is amazing. 

TPM posted:

TPM posted:

The whole state dogged a bullet. Just trees down, power lines. Lots of lessons learned after Wilma.

We were prepared.

I take this back. After watching the news, the Keys have been devastated. Jacksonville major flooding and several communities along the west coast flooded or torn apart.

6.5 million people are without power.

I am very lucky . How we managed to come home to power and a few water spots is amazing. 

 

Glad to hear you're one of the more fortunate ones.  

My sister in Winterhaven had minimal damage.  She'ts going back today (from Atlanta)

Our places in Ft Myers were not damaged.  My son's house in Naples was in the predicted 10-15 foot storm surge area, but that didn't happen, he lost a few tiles off the roof.  Clean up and power outage are the main issues.  The baseball fields are fine.  All in all, pretty darn lucky for the most part.  Once power is restored everywhere everything should be fairly normal. Sounds like other than Key West, Miami and Jacksonville received the most damage.

IMO the news is centered on the more familiar areas to most of the country. There are many places unfamiliar to most tjat were hit hard, especially those places where crops come from and migrant workers have no place to go. 

Naples took a really hard hit. 6 feet storm surge, gusts of 140mph. Marco Island hit bad, sunny isles in Miami devastated. 

Not everyone has insurance, not everyone has generators.  

Those poor people in the carribean, they had nothing before and will have more of nothing now.

I'm in Titusville, FL and still without power...  Borrowing an almost new 7500 generator from an extremely generous friend on Wednesday whose power came back on... Very fortunate, now have fridge, freezer, some desk fans, toaster oven, TV and Internet. The heat at night, even with a good size oscillating table fan blowing 3-feet from my head is pretty bad... It was 88º last night and I was just sweating laying in bed... Got up to rinse off twice in the cold shower... Got a good solid 4.5 hours of sleep, which was better than the 2-3 hours the last 3 days... The temperature got to 76º at like 4:00 am, so I took a couple advil and was able to fall asleep before my 6 am work wake-up alarm... The cold shower was actually VERY refreshing... Feel horrible for my wife who's back at home... Driving the hour into work in AC and sitting at my desk here is like a damn vacation... FPL says we might have power by the 17th... No damage to the house, just the front fence gate fell down, so we're very fortunate... People here are in MUCH, MUCH more dire straights... If I-75 floods, things might get really worse for the west-coast... People living blocks and blocks away from rivers are being slowly flooded out of their homes... It's freakin' horrible to watch! Personally, we got very lucky, because Irma was the absolute worst storm I've ever been through in my 30 years of living in FL... I feel if you took all the storms I've been through and put them together they still wouldn't be as powerful as Irma... 

Bolts-Coach-PR posted:

I'm in Titusville, FL and still without power...  Got an almost new 7500 generator from a friend on Wednesday whose power came back on... Very fortunate, now have fridge, freezer, some desk fans, toaster oven, TV and Internet. The heat at night, even with a good size oscillating table fan blowing 3-feet from my head is pretty bad... It was 88º last night and I was just sweating laying in bed... Got up to rinse off twice in the cold shower... Got a good solid 4.5 hours of sleep, which was better than the 2-3 hours the last 3 days... The temperature got to 76º at like 4:00 am, so I took a couple advil and was able to fall asleep before my 6 am work wake-up alarm... The cold shower was actually VERY refreshing... Driving the hour into work in AC and sitting at my desk here is like a damn vacation... FPL says we might have power by the 17th... No damage to the house, just the front fence gate fell down, so we're very fortunate... People here are in MUCH, MUCH more dire straights... If I-75 floods, things might get really worse for the west-coast... People living blocks and blocks away from rivers are being slowly flooded out of their homes... It's freakin' horrible to watch! Personally, we got very lucky, because Irma was the absolute worst storm I've ever been through in my 30 years of living in FL... I feel if you took all the storms I've been through and put them together they still wouldn't be as powerful as Irma... 

I hope it happens sooner for you than the 17th.  I've heard swimming for 15 minutes before bed will lower your core temperature to make the heat slightly more bearable.

I take I-75 into work in GA and there have been a lot of Florida plates this week headed South.  I do hope they aren't headed back into a flooded I-75.

Irma flooding threatens I-75, key Florida highways

https://www.usatoday.com/story...-highways/664866001/

Bolts-Coach-PR posted:

Irma flooding threatens I-75, key Florida highways

https://www.usatoday.com/story...-highways/664866001/

Yikes!!! Coach Dave leaving for Tallahassee for tournament.

We sent 18 tank wagons out this morning from our PA locations. They will be supporting the utility companies by providing refueling services to their crews repairing the lines and poles. 

Day 5 still no power... Not complaining, because I know others have it way, way worse than us... Super frustrating when your next door neighbor has power and asks, "Why you running a generator? You don't have power?" WTF lady? Really??? Every house across the street, on the same block, has power too... FPL had parked a truck next door at like 7pm and we were like maybe tonight...? Then it started to storm, so he took off, can't do linework in the rain and lightning... Caught a break with the rain, cooled the house down to about 80º or so and was able to get around 6 hours of sleep... Thought I put enough gas in the generator at 6:30 am, but it just died and wife is unhappier now than she was before... FU IRMA!!!

Bolts-Coach-PR posted:

Day 5 still no power... Not complaining, because I know others have it way, way worse than us... Super frustrating when your next door neighbor has power and asks, "Why you running a generator? You don't have power?" WTF lady? Really??? Every house across the street, on the same block, has power too... FPL had parked a truck next door at like 7pm and we were like maybe tonight...? Then it started to storm, so he took off, can't do linework in the rain and lightning... Caught a break with the rain, cooled the house down to about 80º or so and was able to get around 6 hours of sleep... Thought I put enough gas in the generator at 6:30 am, but it just died and wife is unhappier now than she was before... FU IRMA!!!

Stay strong!  Silly question, did you check the breaker.  

real green posted:

Bolts-Coach-PR posted:

Day 5 still no power... Not complaining, because I know others have it way, way worse than us... Super frustrating when your next door neighbor has power and asks, "Why you running a generator? You don't have power?" WTF lady? Really??? Every house across the street, on the same block, has power too... FPL had parked a truck next door at like 7pm and we were like maybe tonight...? Then it started to storm, so he took off, can't do linework in the rain and lightning... Caught a break with the rain, cooled the house down to about 80º or so and was able to get around 6 hours of sleep... Thought I put enough gas in the generator at 6:30 am, but it just died and wife is unhappier now than she was before... FU IRMA!!!

Stay strong!  Silly question, did you check the breaker.  

There's 12 houses on our street that are on the same transformer... We are like a no power island... 

You are in Orlando right, Lake Mary?  My sister lives in the area ... a little bit north. No issues. 

Goblue33 posted:

You are in Orlando right, Lake Mary?  My sister lives in the area ... a little bit north. No issues. 

Was... Now live near the coast in Titusville...

Bolts-Coach-PR posted:

Day 5 still no power... Not complaining, because I know others have it way, way worse than us... Super frustrating when your next door neighbor has power and asks, "Why you running a generator? You don't have power?" WTF lady? Really??? Every house across the street, on the same block, has power too... FPL had parked a truck next door at like 7pm and we were like maybe tonight...? Then it started to storm, so he took off, can't do linework in the rain and lightning... Caught a break with the rain, cooled the house down to about 80º or so and was able to get around 6 hours of sleep... Thought I put enough gas in the generator at 6:30 am, but it just died and wife is unhappier now than she was before... FU IRMA!!!

Bolts - 

I've got the opposite problem you have - I've got power at home but not here at our facility.  I'm thankful to be able to go home to an air conditioned house, but I'm going on about 60 hours this week in an office that is currently 94 degrees.

We have generator power to run our phones and computers but not enough to run the ac units.  Normally I would try to work from home, except for the fact that I have no internet there.  Perfect internet here, no ac. Perfect ac there, no internet.  It's like a Saturday Night LIve skit or something.

Our company handles last mile logistics for a lot of national shipping companies.  One of the major accounts we service handles product shipments to Home Depot.  Since the days leading up the the storm, we have been getting in dozens of trucks a day full of supplies destined for the stores.  I can look out my office into the warehouse and see pallets full of generators, tarps, nails/screws/bolts, batteries, hand tools, etc.  All of it will be turned around and out our doors within a few hours.

Right now we have probably 100 pallets of boxes of chlorine to use to make water drinkable that we can't get down into the keys because of the road conditions. We're just waiting on the okay to get that stuff moving. There's only one road into the keys, and it's almost impossible to get down there.

I'd really love to shut down for a day and give the staff a break, but every minute we aren't operating is a minute later getting supplies to the stores.

Our owner, lead dispatcher, and myself were all part of the company 25 years ago when Andrew hit. Actually, the 3 of us pretty much were the company back then. So, we've been through this before. Of course we were 25 years younger then...

My heart goes out to all of you.  The Keys looks like a war zone.

Rob T posted:

Bolts-Coach-PR posted:

Day 5 still no power... Not complaining, because I know others have it way, way worse than us... Super frustrating when your next door neighbor has power and asks, "Why you running a generator? You don't have power?" WTF lady? Really??? Every house across the street, on the same block, has power too... FPL had parked a truck next door at like 7pm and we were like maybe tonight...? Then it started to storm, so he took off, can't do linework in the rain and lightning... Caught a break with the rain, cooled the house down to about 80º or so and was able to get around 6 hours of sleep... Thought I put enough gas in the generator at 6:30 am, but it just died and wife is unhappier now than she was before... FU IRMA!!!

Bolts - 

I've got the opposite problem you have - I've got power at home but not here at our facility.  I'm thankful to be able to go home to an air conditioned house, but I'm going on about 60 hours this week in an office that is currently 94 degrees.

We have generator power to run our phones and computers but not enough to run the ac units.  Normally I would try to work from home, except for the fact that I have no internet there.  Perfect internet here, no ac. Perfect ac there, no internet.  It's like a Saturday Night LIve skit or something.

Our company handles last mile logistics for a lot of national shipping companies.  One of the major accounts we service handles product shipments to Home Depot.  Since the days leading up the the storm, we have been getting in dozens of trucks a day full of supplies destined for the stores.  I can look out my office into the warehouse and see pallets full of generators, tarps, nails/screws/bolts, batteries, hand tools, etc.  All of it will be turned around and out our doors within a few hours.

Right now we have probably 100 pallets of boxes of chlorine to use to make water drinkable that we can't get down into the keys because of the road conditions. We're just waiting on the okay to get that stuff moving. There's only one road into the keys, and it's almost impossible to get down there.

I'd really love to shut down for a day and give the staff a break, but every minute we aren't operating is a minute later getting supplies to the stores.

Our owner, lead dispatcher, and myself were all part of the company 25 years ago when Andrew hit. Actually, the 3 of us pretty much were the company back then. So, we've been through this before. Of course we were 25 years younger then...

Thanks brother, I appreciate it. Hope you guys get in order really soon!

Day 7... FPL now says our power 'could' be restored by tomorrow,  the 18th, by 11:45pm... 6.5 million Floridians realized they don't like camping after Irma... 'Generator-life' is not as 3rd-World as I thought it would be... We were able to pick up two used Window AC units that have made a world of difference. I'm able to actually sleep! The house is cool, and there are really no complaints... The $25 a day gas bill is something I could do without though... After searching all the local appliance stores for a window AC unit, without any luck, my wife asked her local Titusville Facebook group if anyone wanted to sell or let us borrow a unit, an in literally 5 minutes we got a call from a great couple that got their power back... For $200 I got one that basically cools our entire house! There are some GREAT folks out there in the world still!!

Good for you Coach! It's stories like this that restores my faith in humanity!  FWIW, sons gf lives in a very exclusive neighborhood in Boca Raton, she just got power back yesterday. We were lucky, I lie on a grid that encompasses a hospital and two fire stations, we never lost power. BTW, we are FPL, they are reimbursing for lost food. Not sure if where you are is doing the same thing.

I saw a post on FB, from a wife of an out of state line man who came to FL to help. He slept in a place for two nights without power, and has been working 10 hour days in 100 degree heat. He told her that people stop and literally curse him out over not having power, yet there are others stopping to give them cold water and food.  

We got some water damage by our front door and hallway, and we were unable to open the front door. Took 3 men to do so. They came here Friday to fix.  The worst part in all of this is that I hurt my back, although better I have not been able to get up and go as much as I wish. Serves me right for picking up those water bottle cases!!!! 

My heart goes out to those who lost their homes, and so happy that here in Florida, people got out of the areas that flooded.

However, we do have more storms on their way.

Just in time for Maria!!!!

TPM posted:

Just in time for Maria!!!!

Why bro...???

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-ni...downer/3505987?snl=1

TPM posted:

Just in time for Maria!!!!

Yep.  Now a cat 3 storm on track to hit Puerto Rico (direct hit).  Could become a strong cat 4.