Hurricane Irma

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#651
Does everyone have power back on?

I'm in Tampa and only lost power for about 15 minutes.

My friends live in Holiday and have been coming over to my house to work because their power is still out. I have a friend in Lithia who is still out also.
 
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VolFaninFla said:
Does everyone have power back on?

I'm in Tampa and only lost power for about 15 minutes.

My friends live in Holiday and have been coming over to my house to work because their power is still out. I have a friend in Lithia who is still out also.
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I got mine on yesterday. I had been staying in a hotel down on the beach. The hotel was right near my house, but it had power. In fact, my entire neighborhood had power except for 6 houses. My house and 5 others are apparently on a separate transformer. When the power was restored to our homes the transformer blew again and they didn't come back for a few days to fix it again. It sucked.
 
#653
#653
Family in Naples has been told probably the 23rd for electrical. Water is on but I don't know if it's potable. This is relatively close to the mall. I expect that people further out may have to wait longer.
 
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#654
Polk county has about 10k that are still out and may be waiting a while. They have to basically rebuild the power poles and lines. My in laws in fort Myers got theirs back last night around 7pm
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
Family in Naples has been told probably the 23rd for electrical. Water is on but I don't know if it's potable. This is relatively close to the mall. I expect that people further out may have to wait longer.
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If I get it back by the 23rd I'd be stoked. I somehow doubt they are going to stop and run a new line to the transformer that supplies my and my neighbors house. School has been canceled until the 25th. Apparently not only is there not electricity to most of the schools - the damn evacuees trashed, ransacked and looted many of them. Beautiful.
 
#656
#656
Got my power back yesterday. Going home tomorrow and hopefully the water wil be out of the house by then
 
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Septic said:
If I get it back by the 23rd I'd be stoked. I somehow doubt they are going to stop and run a new line to the transformer that supplies my and my neighbors house. School has been canceled until the 25th. Apparently not only is there not electricity to most of the schools - the damn evacuees trashed, ransacked and looted many of them. Beautiful.
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What do you loot from a school, desks?
 
#659
#659
Our house survived in Central Fla! We evacuated Sept 8 to Santee, SC for 6 days;took over 10.5 hrs to get there in what should have been 7 hours. Took 4.5 hours to get out of Fla in what is normally 3 hours.
Drove back on Thursday in under 7 hours. Still no power and staying in a nearby hotel within 7-10 miles from home for 4 days. We've been told power to be back on real late Sunday night.
It's been a long drawn out process. Emptied the fridge with 3 bags of food. House smells!😒
 
#661
#661
Hey TeenFan. We never lost power in Titusville. But some of the homes in windover are flooded. Never thought I would see that much water there.
 
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TennFan said:
Where do you live? Stil none in parts of PSJ.
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Merritt Island. We didn't get flooded but had some water intrusion. Of course the power was out for a few days so the house smells like wet dog. Air conditioners running now so it will be fine until the next one gets here next week. :(
 
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#663
I didn't see a thread for Hurricane Maria, so I thought I'd post here. Incredible intensification today. Now has 175 mph sustained winds and a pressure of 909 mb. That has to be near-historic for this region of the Atlantic pressure-wise.

Going to be a very dangerous situation for PR.
 
#664
#664
Can Hurricane Jose get any weirder?

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#668
My son, who lives and works in Key West, returned home Monday the 18th. His home and most of the homes in his subdivision were not damaged unless a tree fell on them. He estimated 90% of the trees bigger than saplings were toppled but few hit houses. Lot's of demolished fences and a few cars but luckily not much damage to the houses. His house sits on about a 2 foot block crawlspace foundation and water did not get into the house. The power was on at his house when he arrived. Water is supposedly not drinkable yet. The grocery stores are limiting the number of items you can buy. In town his business was also not harmed, just a massive amount of tree and debris clean-up. Several of the hotels are up and running to serve the first responders. Tourists not allowed for the near future. Curfew is 7 PM. There were roadblocks along the way thru the Keys to check ID as only residents were allowed in. He said some of the middle parts of the Keys were slammed and had lots of damage. Luckily Key West itself and Stock Island, which are next to each other, fared much better than expected. He left his truck parked on the street in town when they evacuated. It had no apparent damage, started right up and still had a full tank of gas.
 
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#669
jhamilton1208 said:
Awesome. If you try/tried that air thing with the kayak, let me know how it works out, you know, for future reference.
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I ended up flipping it upright and opening the hatch and using the shopvac to suck enough of the water out to where I could drag it out and flip it.

I tried blowing air into it but it was futile.
 
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larjoranj said:
My son, who lives and works in Key West, returned home Monday the 18th. His home and most of the homes in his subdivision were not damaged unless a tree fell on them. He estimated 90% of the trees bigger than saplings were toppled but few hit houses. Lot's of demolished fences and a few cars but luckily not much damage to the houses. His house sits on about a 2 foot block crawlspace foundation and water did not get into the house. The power was on at his house when he arrived. Water is supposedly not drinkable yet. The grocery stores are limiting the number of items you can buy. In town his business was also not harmed, just a massive amount of tree and debris clean-up. Several of the hotels are up and running to serve the first responders. Tourists not allowed for the near future. Curfew is 7 PM. There were roadblocks along the way thru the Keys to check ID as only residents were allowed in. He said some of the middle parts of the Keys were slammed and had lots of damage. Luckily Key West itself and Stock Island, which are next to each other, fared much better than expected. He left his truck parked on the street in town when they evacuated. It had no apparent damage, started right up and still had a full tank of gas.
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For those interested:

http://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/irma/index.html

Pig Pine and Marathon took it on the chin.
 
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larjoranj said:
My son, who lives and works in Key West, returned home Monday the 18th. His home and most of the homes in his subdivision were not damaged unless a tree fell on them. He estimated 90% of the trees bigger than saplings were toppled but few hit houses. Lot's of demolished fences and a few cars but luckily not much damage to the houses. His house sits on about a 2 foot block crawlspace foundation and water did not get into the house. The power was on at his house when he arrived. Water is supposedly not drinkable yet. The grocery stores are limiting the number of items you can buy. In town his business was also not harmed, just a massive amount of tree and debris clean-up. Several of the hotels are up and running to serve the first responders. Tourists not allowed for the near future. Curfew is 7 PM. There were roadblocks along the way thru the Keys to check ID as only residents were allowed in. He said some of the middle parts of the Keys were slammed and had lots of damage. Luckily Key West itself and Stock Island, which are next to each other, fared much better than expected. He left his truck parked on the street in town when they evacuated. It had no apparent damage, started right up and still had a full tank of gas.
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You have to be feeling crazy relief for him!
 
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Septic said:
I ended up flipping it upright and opening the hatch and using the shopvac to suck enough of the water out to where I could drag it out and flip it.

I tried blowing air into it but it was futile.
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Well crap. I was hoping it would work. On the bright side, at least you have power now. Hope everything goes well from here on out.
 
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jhamilton1208 said:
Well crap. I was hoping it would work. On the bright side, at least you have power now. Hope everything goes well from here on out.
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My Rigid shopvac didn't have the chops to displace the water. I was hoping it'd pop up like a sub.
 
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#674
We were in Sint Maarten back in May for a week, very nice, very friendly people.
My wife has been trying to get in touch with the Atrium, where we stayed, about 2 miles from the airport. Since Irma went directly over the Island, she's had no luck so far....We did see pictures of the Atrium, on the outside it looked good.
Also read something the other day that before the airport was destroyed that it had clocked winds of 298km/p which is 184mph.
Also read where the winds on Sint Maarten, St. Barts, and Anguilla were sustained over 100mph for about 5 hours.
 
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