Hurricane Dorian
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All you Florida BOTL's hunker down. My thoughts and prayers headed your way. Stay safe.
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Looks like we may dodge the bullet. We start mandatory A/B shifts tomorrow"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter2 -
Alec Bradley shifts?
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis2 -
This how Flatbed drivers prepare for hurricane Dorian
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Wow! Things aren’t looking good for the Florida coast. The child bride and I partied our way through the tail end of a storm when we lived in Brevard County back in ‘58 and ‘59 but that storm was a real wimp compared to what’s headed for that area this time.
Dorian isn’t fooling around with its category 5 status. I hope and pray that everyone in the affected area stays safe and damage stays to a minimum. Please, folks, heed the warnings........ 🙏5 -
Over 2300 price gouging complaints in Florida. Water, gas, motels, just about everything. Hope the vendors stores are remembered after it is over.0
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Uh...Yea...Happy for you guys in FL, but you have to stop sending hurricanes this way! Looking like it might take the same path as Matthew...My day to relax yesterday turned in to a 12+ hour round trip to the coast to prep for Dorian...one boat tied tight to the lift and the other towed back home...4 -
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Looks like Brevard county may have dodged the bullet....2
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The worst partJust passing over Jacksonville now. Got a lot of wind and rain but thankfully nothing like mathew . was well prepared . boarded windows drained some the pool. And had the generator all prepped to go.but glad I haven't needed itno matter where you go, there you are.9
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Glad to hear from you.twistedstem said:The worst partJust passing over Jacksonville now. Got a lot of wind and rain but thankfully nothing like mathew . was well prepared . boarded windows drained some the pool. And had the generator all prepped to go.but glad I haven't needed it1 -
i dont get on so much anymore. i do a little lurking from time to time, but not nearly as active as i used to be. also dont smoke as often as i used to eitherjd50ae said:
Glad to hear from you.twistedstem said:The worst partJust passing over Jacksonville now. Got a lot of wind and rain but thankfully nothing like mathew . was well prepared . boarded windows drained some the pool. And had the generator all prepped to go.but glad I haven't needed itno matter where you go, there you are.0 -
Co-worker just came into the office and said that it is starting to sprinkle here in Wilson, NC. Raining at the coast but not too much wind - yet. Overnight tonight is probably the worst period for our area on the coast. They are saying the eye may make its first US landfall about 25-30 miles from our house.
First world problems I guess. We are lucky to have the place. This is just one of the "costs" we have to pay for what we have...
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Good luck to all the BOTL down there!
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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They closed our college for two days and the rain is starting. We are inland a bit, so our problem might be river flooding as in the past. Keeping our fingers crossed.
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Which college?0
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Edgecombe Community College. All the colleges around the eastern part of the state closed.0
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Yes they are...familiar with several of them...
So far so good to the west...doesn't sound like it was as bad as Florence down east or as bad as it could have been. It certainly was still bad enough to do damage in the area. We are hoping we can get to our place tomorrow to see how we fared. Our neighbor lives there full time so he might be able to give us some info sooner.1 -
The outer banks got hit, but inland we have been fine. Some heavy rain and some wind last night, everything pretty calm right now.
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We definitely dodged a bullet this time. Ocracoke, on the Outer Banks, is roughly 30 miles from our house and they had significant damage. We headed down Saturday morning to see what damage we had.
Lots of large branches down and we had a few trees down as well...One of the trees was over the fence but didn't damage it. The biggest tree was leaning over the road by the side of our house but doesn't impact traffic. Many of the branches were stuck into the ground like spears - some at least 2' into the ground.
Other than that a piece of flying plywood took out a section of screen on our porch and we lost about 20 boards from our dock. Luckily the water and electric on the dock survived.
We wanted to do more and stay the night so we had the next day but agreed on leaving at sunset since we didn't have power. As we were getting close to leaving she said she had shutoff all the lights since we were leaving so they wouldn't stay on until we got back down there...My son turned one of them on and 30 seconds later the lights came on. So we stayed and did some additional clean up yesterday. Still more work to do but we made good progress.5 -
Glad you made it through the storm.4
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