Article: Living through Irma...

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Good read glad y'all are safe. Hope for a fast recovery for all those in the path of the storms


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Nice post, sorry for your troubles, yard work.... Those oaks are tough customers.


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I love Florida, even after our minor setback in Gainesville yesterday (#Vols #Ourbricksarenotsturdy!). That being said, I don't like wind!!

Glad everything worked out Slab, reminds one of how lucky we are all the time to have the power and conveniences we do. best to you and yours in cleaning up the mess. Could have been a lot worse.

It let me in this time. Great story and pictures. Just so thankful it wasn't any worse than it was for you. Great grand kid story.

glad everyone is safe and you're getting back in shape, well the yard anyway. You need to put down the camera and help those ladies :Rofl

I'm glad yall made it without major damage AND kept your sense of humor. Stores like Rural King helping in times of trouble make me an even more loyal customer. We had a couple of stores here that did the same thing during our 2009 ice storm.

Glad Irma did not do much damage at your home Ed.

Glad you and your's are safe and well.

I just got power back yesterday, one hour shy of a full 7 days without. Luckily we did have a generator, a pool, plenty of water and a window ac unit I had delivered the Friday before. It allowed us to sleep cool at night, the generator kept the fridge and freezer going too. Next time I'll buy that 30 amp twst plug I looked at months ago, actually I ordered those the other day too. Irma was fun for sure. My office carport took a 100ft pine, but I'll take it as a win since it did not get the roof or screen room.

you made it safe

Glad all is well!

Thankful you an your family is safe, things like this always humble us an teach us just how wonderful of a life we have. Thank you for posting.

Thankfully every thing turned out okay.

Just good to know you and your family were OK.

Happy you made it thru safely....you are now officially a true southerner.....but what an initiation that was....

So glad to hear you and your family made it through safe.

Yes yes, I remember all of that stuff when Rita came here for a visit. You were lucky the storm had broken down so much. Glad you got through it all okay Ed. Your story sure reminds me of some things!

When Rita came here she was still a Cat 2 with 120 MPH winds and the center stalled for 2 hours about 20 miles as the crow flies from my house and that place it stopped put us in the NE sector. I heard tornados going by for over 2 hours and I mean a lot of them. One jumped over my garage and then took out 3 trees in a line. After that another one took the top 8 big limbs out of one of my big oak trees. we didn't get power back on for 11 days, but I did manage to get a generator after 6 or 7 days. We got a break on the shower after 3 days as one of our deputies took us into the Nurse's office at the school as it had water, yippee for sure, lol! We did get our water back on a couple days later. It was so darn hot after that sucker left that we could not sleep in the house so we slept out on the back deck, lol!

As for cooking, like you I had a lot of food in my freezer that we were going to loose anyway so we cooked and had everyone over that wanted to eat. We never had some volunteer EMT's from New York come join us for a meal. This was one of two huge fish fries we had and each time I cooked about 30 pounds of crappie! I also have a lot of Elk Smoked sausage in the freezer that we cooked almost every day and that Sheriff's deputy would make sure to come by for meals, lol! He was a real gem for us though as he brought us cases of drinking water every day! I am sure you remember how much Forrest we have here and there were so many trees down all over the place. I remember the loggers after that had a race to get all that stuff taken to the paper mills before it went bad, still couldn't get it all.

My home town about 100 miles South of me was just wrecked!

These storms are noting to fool with! Just like Rita, I figured it would never be strong up this far from the coast, but it was a huge surprise to me! I have been in a good many Hurricanes and even went through 2 cat 4 storms back in the late 50' and early 60's. Carla was 1961 Audrey was 1957. Audrey came we had a lot of huge windows in our house so we went to my uncle's house and the eye came over, we thought it was over and went home on to soon see the last half come, lol! It was bad, but we did well as no damage to our house, but the town flooded bad.

Anyway these storms are nothing to play with and better to leave if you know soon enough and that is partially where the trouble is, if you wait until the roads are blocked with traffic, it's not good.

Skip

Thank you for the great pictures and story of you and your family's survival. Reminded me of ice storms we have had in the past here in Kentucky. Glad no one got hurt and damage was minimal.

Glad that you made it safely.
The way MAMA is working, it says that you can't keep a good lady down.:highfive
Looks like the BANANA TREE survived. Them oaks don't like a lot of wind. The Spanish Moss does not help when the wind picks up. It puts up a lot of resistance to the wind.
Does the generator have an output for 230VAC?????

Slab....one of the handiest things I ever had during power outage (like 2 weeks) from a hurricane is a 2 burner fold up propane camping stove.....

Good story Ed

Thanks for sharing that Ed. I've been thru a few with the first one being in Jax in the early 60's. Can't remember its name but it was bad. Too bad you aren't closer. I have a spare gen I'd give you.

Thanks for sharing. Glad everything ended up alright.