Good luck Tallahassee and Perry.
Good luck Tallahassee and Perry.
Another shot of the building across the street from mine.
To give you an idea of what we will see tomorrow morning. My building was built in 1970 and has never had water in it.
This is Katrina huge.
St Marks, pretty much the coast directly south of Tallahassee
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Late-night check-in and hope the overnight goes as good as it can.
Hoping for the best for all of you guys down there.
Just recently got word that family on the East side of Tallahassee had limited damage from the hurricane. Power out, limbs down, etc. Family further east unknown at this time.
Now we get to watch the remnants roll north and swamp the already soaked Appalachians.
All good down here in Ormond, but how is everyone west and north of us?
Hoping for the best for the people in the path of this one. Stay safe and if you need help, let us know.
We have gotten a lot of rain last night and this morning. Winds have been variable and gusting into the high 50s and low 60s.
We didn't lose power at home but it did flicker some. I also have power at the office. All but 2 of my crew made it to work. The 2 are stuck behind downed trees an hour outside of town.
It's been about like a bad thunder storm except without the thunder.
My parents are in Creston, NC in a house about 25' from what is usually a small stream. Late yesterday the water was about 10' outside the banks. They are forecast to get 15-20" of rain. That will probably be enough to put water under the house for the 2nd time in the past 100 years. Ventusky shows winds into the mid 60s up there. Currently, I can't get in touch with them because the internet is down. At a guess they don't have power. Luckily, they are surrounded by some of the best backwoods hillbillys in the world. I don't have to worry that someone is keeping an eye on them.
I got a picture from family in Greenville, SC showing at least 3 feet of water on a stop sign in Unity Park. Can't post because of board picture issue.
MadScientistMatt said:Yesterday was a pretty nasty storm, but apparently it had nothing to do with Helene. Today is mostly a drizzle. They're expecting the real deal to show up around midnight tonight.
The eye passed through Athens just to the east about 8 AM today. It brought a little more rain and significantly more wind to Lawrenceville, but we're safe here. Had the power flicker out earlier but it came back on in 10 minutes.
Man, it's calm out. What kind of storm is this? Oh, I'm in the eye.
The barometer reading here tells me another story. Just at 28.03.
J.A. Ackley said:Man, it's calm out. What kind of storm is this? Oh, I'm in the eye.
The barometer reading here tells me another story. Just at 28.03.
My altimeter can't even go there:
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Karacticus said:In reply to AAZCD-Jon (Forum Supporter) :
You're overdue on your 24 month recert!
Oops... I know that it was flown to another airport in August to have the 24 month stuff done. Not sure if it has a new sticker somewhere, but the 'RAMCO' online records show it was done. I'll verify with our mechanic.
Lost power at 6:45 last night. Still out but generator is keeping fridges cold. Over 245k without power in Pinellas County. All major bridges still closed. Storm surge on beaches was severe. We have friends who got over 4' of water on their house on Madeira Beach.
Kurt (in Bradenton) had his 37' sailboat lose its anchor and is now high and dry on its keel in a park. Not going to be easy to move.
EV fires from flooding is a real thing.
We lucked out. It jogged east of us. No damage, no loss of power. Obviously better to be on west side of the eye.
In reply to Purple Frog :
Great.
Here's another picture from Greenville SC.
I did not realize how bad this was. I hope everyone is safe
Purple Frog said:We lucked out. It jogged east of us. No damage, no loss of power. Obviously better to be on west side of the eye.
Glad to hear. Im gettin on the road to check on Dad. His phone lines go down when a cloud looks at em wrong. berkeleyin AT&T
In reply to Noddaz :
From my family and friends the problem is it's dumping water and winds in areas that aren't used to it. My family in upstate SC are seeing a lot of down trees and the flooding of course. The trees that get stressed more grow deeper roots and stronger wood. When they aren't stressed like up there they are weaker.
When Hugo came through Davidson in '90 it took out a ton of big trees. Just leaned em over with the root ball, sod, posts, and whatever was near them. Surreal.
It dumped a crazy amount of rain here in Atlanta in a 48 hour period. Power flickered but mostly stayed on. Sounds like everything 50 miles east of us got it a lot worse.
Lost power at about 10p. Fire and police showed up down the street right after.
Next morning damage assessment says a tornado likely touched down right down the street - someone's back yard woods got smoked. Duke says no power til 10p tonight, not really surprised. We lose power in a stuff breeze. Fortunately, my hot water is on gas so I was able to catch a shower. Spending the day at Disney because the mouse always has ac.
Mndsm said:Spending the day at Disney because the mouse always has ac.
When we were at Disney/Galaxy's Edge during the hurricane Nov 2022, I was impressed how they had their E36 M3 together and rolled with the punches. They had things for the kids to do that were kicked out of the parks, the food and entertainment kept rolling back at the lodging, power never flickered. Probably lighter damage but they were back to 100% the following morning.
And I was stationed in Norfolk in 1990 when Hugo hit. The only reason they didn't send us out was we were too far torn apart for maintenance. We barely got wind that day (I had my Camaro in a car show and propped the hood with a 2x4). My friend from NC took me around his town in the woods and saw all the trees downed.
In reply to AAZCD-Jon (Forum Supporter) :
You're overdue on your 24 month recert!
Word has gone out that the Lake Lure Damn in North Carolina is 10' above capacity and overtopped the damn. The damn is in danger of imminent failure. Everyone below the damn is being evacuated.
The lake is 720 acres and is 104' deep at its deepest point.
Ok, yesterday at the height of the wind for us (or close to it) I saw an airplane coming in on approach for the Punta Gorda airport. Winds were 66 at that point in time at 33' agl. Why in the heck was there an Airbus A320 landing in that?
Here's my hunch, let me know how crazy I am.
At that point in time the eye was north of us. I suspect that was a storm-chaser plane (no idea what that's called) and they needed to refuel. since the eye was north of us, Sarasota and Tampa didn't make sense, so they went to PG.
It was a shock to see an airplane up there at a time when we couldn't even open our front door because the wind raced through the house and threw stuff around.
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