Tropical storm Ian

In reply to Stampie :

That sucks, I'll spend tomorrow afternoon moving everything from the backyard by the woods to the front yard with no trees. It's going to be a challenge. 

It never fails. The hurricane always brings the crazies out...

All ready for the "FLORIDA MAN" stories

I PM'd DrBoost with a link to this thread. I know the forum is the last of his concerns right now, but asked him to check in as soon as he can. 

I believe this is his first storm since he moved down here. Sucks that he got a big one to welcome him. 

How are folks doing this morning?

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

Work is "business as usual but be safe."

So far so good. We lost a big tree on the property line and it took out our power drop. Once the storm passes I'll go out and assess damage a bit better.

Otherwise just some big limbs down. 
 

Ian is once again a tropical storm and making its way eastward just south of us. Wind and rain have been pounding us all night, picking up more now, but minimal yard damage and we still have power. Looks like most of the staff does not have power. No cell but plenty of internet. Our biggest thing right now is bubbling toilets--we are on septic. Yard is not flooded, so that tellls you where the water table is right now. As Tom said, he lost a big tree but it missed the house. Our local news is mostly showing tree damage, but the news out of Ft Myers and Naples is just heartbreaking. We'll try to get to World HQ at the end of today when it's safe to move around again.

Margie

Margie, i'm curious to see how the drainage ditch is doing. Could probably go surfing on it. 
 

we got water. How much water? All of it. All the water. 
 

heres what it  normally looks like. 

doggies are all about it. 

We're inland from the GRM mothership, west side of Volusia county. Still have power, but I got a blink as I typed this. It's gusty, I'd guess it's in the mid forties at most, and rain is surprisingly moderate. The street in front of the garage backs up frequently, and has flooded the garage occasionally. There's culverts, but they're only draining into a perforated pipe. My side of the street is still draining. 
 

I grew up spending a lot of time with my grandparents on Treasure Island a block off of the Gulf, and with the bay 15 feet from the back door. After school, wife and I lived in Sarasota and Bradenton for nine years.
 

We're lucky this time. 

In reply to TJL (Forum Supporter) :

Glad that you're mostly okay. I think everyone along the St Johns is dealing with a whole, whole lot of water plus some. Probably going to see some ugly photos come out of inland counties. And yeah, once it's safe to go out, I intend to go look at that canal behind the property. Or maybe I'll just wait and it'll come to me :(

Margie 

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

We're inland from the GRM mothership, west side of Volusia county. Still have power, but I got a blink as I typed this. It's gusty, I'd guess it's in the mid forties at most, and rain is surprisingly moderate. The street in front of the garage backs up frequently, and has flooded the garage occasionally. There's culverts, but they're only draining into a perforated pipe. My side of the street is still draining. 
 

I grew up spending a lot of time with my grandparents on Treasure Island a block off of the Gulf, and with the bay 15 feet from the back door. After school, wife and I lived in Sarasota and Bradenton for nine years.
 

We're lucky this time. 

 

And just like that, it's ramped up. I'd guess that we're getting gusts in the fifties now. Power is still on, surprisingly. 

almost have water in my shed. Thats new!

luckly, my house was built in 1992 and im told it was a model home by the neighbor. So they have the house up like 3-4' from the yard. If our house floods then the whole friggin state must be under water and i'll have bigger problems than worrying about my house. 

Marjorie Suddard said:

 Our biggest thing right now is bubbling toilets--we are on septic. Yard is not flooded, so that tellls you where the water table is right now. 

 

I am trying to figure out how that works with a typical vent stack. 

Hope everyone is doing well and staying mostly dry.

In reply to Marjorie Suddard :

If your yard is not flooded and you have access to the cover on the gray-water tank, you can probably pump that out to a low area to prevent the system from backing up into the house.
 

There's enough water out there now that it shouldn't have any environmental impact at all.
 

^Wartime Rules in effect. 

In reply to Apexcarver :

All our little vent tops/shelters/whatchamacallits point South, which is where the wind has been gusting from. Which makes me think maybe the bubbling is just air back feeding and not septic flooding? 

In reply to Marjorie Suddard :

Turn your vents? Or have someone in the house fabricate some one-way flaps for the ends. 
 

or, something like this (but I'm sure that Home Depot is probably closed right now):

Stampie said:

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

Work is "business as usual but be safe."

No pole work today. It'll be lap dances only. 

In reply to Woody (Forum Supportum) :

Hmm yeah. It's not a big deal, but disconcerting because water level in the bowl goes down, then goes back up like my own mini Tampa Bay. Googles tells me that is exactly what air pressure fluctuations in the vent can do. 
 

House is good as far as I can tell.  No power still.  Neighborhood is relatively good, Irma ~5 years back must've cleared all the weaklings out of the trees.  Only saw two oaks down, handful of sweetgum and pine and whatnot.

Brought the outside temp to a wonderfully unseasonable 66°F

Everyone is outside cleaning up.  Berk that.  I'll wait till the power and AC is back before I go outside and get sweaty.

Mr_Asa said:
I'll wait till the power and AC is back before I go outside and get sweaty.

what kinda "florida man" crap is that! I demand you slam a bunch of cheap beer and go join everyone as they gawk at broken stuff.  

I need to raise my well's pressure switch apparently.  Its only an inch or so from being submerged.

My street is white-capping. 

Lost power last night around 7:30. Still pretty windy here in Dunedin but you can tell it is calming down. Got the generator plugged in last night so fridges, WiFi, and tv are up and going. Made coffee too! Cleanup starting soon.

North of Tampa, didn't lose power, just a bunch of clean up to do outside. Cousin 5 minutes away from me lost power at 4pm yesterday. Luckily this always seems to happen, yet always have these random power outages on sunny days