Hurricane Irma

[foxfirev5]

Residents of the lower keys are being allowed back in tomorrow at 7 AM. Bring your own provisions.

[Khan]

Boil water advisory ended yesterday.
Street next to ours still without electricity.
I still hurt all over and have after storm depression.
I'm getting too old for this stuff.

[Khan]

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Originally Posted by Khan Boil water advisory ended yesterday. Street next to ours still without electricity. I still hurt all over and have after storm depression. I'm getting too old for this stuff.

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Local, from Wednesday.
Good to see.

[simple girl]

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Originally Posted by Khan Attachment 26856 Local, from Wednesday. Good to see.

Oh my goodness!

I hope you are feeling better soon Khan. You've been through quite an ordeal.

[Blue Collar Guy]

800,000 Still with no power.

[Moemg]

I got power on early Tuesday but just a few blocks away are still with out power .Khan I also had storm stress that exhausted me for a few days .Take care of yourself and take extra naps .

[simple girl]

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Originally Posted by Moemg I got power on early Tuesday but just a few blocks away are still with out power .Khan I also had storm stress that exhausted me for a few days .Take care of yourself and take extra naps .

You know, I was exhausted, too, for several days. I slept SO hard, and still felt tired when I woke up! Had to have been the stress. Surprised me how it affected me.

[Moemg]

We should sue CNN they helped cause the stress then we will take the money and go on a world cruise .

[simple girl]

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Originally Posted by Moemg We should sue CNN they helped cause the stress then we will take the money and go on a world cruise .

Now you're talkin'!

[audreyh1]

I was super stressed too. I was so worried about my Dad's place in GA, and the storm looked so big. I watched the track closely hoping it would move further away. I knew they would get tropical storm winds, not hurricane winds. But I was worried about old trees, etc. And sure enough, three went down, and they were without power for almost 4 days. And I think they only got 35mph winds but there must have been some gusts to 60.

Lots of down trees and power outages in their area.

I didn't watch any TV news either. Just online weather maps, forecasts, and reports.

[atmsmshr]

Helped a coworker with some minor interior home flooding. They lived on mainland Fort Pierce which got 10 inches of rain in a 4 hour period. A tree had fallen into a canal and impacted a large area.

I cleaned up our lot and took the shutter off the front of the house - the rest stay on until November because of the conga line of storms formed in the Atlantic.

Kahn is right about storm fatigue / depression. you worry like hell about your loved ones safety and your own. Then your property, neighbors and friends and community. Throw in power, ac, water food and gas. (There is nothing like standing in line for MREs or water on a hot day). Be careful about injuries. Cut out and haul yard trash. When you have significant damage, wrestle with insurance and weed out unsavory contractors. Help out others less fortunate and view firsthand the hell they are going through.

[48Fire]

We suffered from storm fatigue, but no depression. We were just too lucky and grateful for our own circumstance.

After we took care of our essentials, we volunteered at the local special needs shelter. These people have major challenges even during the best of times.

We also did some cleanup at local state park.

We are going to eat out at local restaurants for a while, and tip 40% to help boost locals.

Other than that, just hoping Maria doesn't come this way. Or at least gives us time to clean up.

[audreyh1]

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Originally Posted by Khan Attachment 26856 Local, from Wednesday. Good to see.

That's a really freaky picture. I don't see how they could stay on the road!

[Amethyst]

I am glad someone mentioned storm stress, and the toll it can take. People in the storm's path have to do everything, all at once, without any assurance that it will be enough.

There wasn't even any bad weather here, and I had some level of storm stress from just watching all the coverage. I'm not kidding - couldn't sleep, distracted, tired. We don't even own property in FL any more, although we were planning to vacation there for this winter. I was worried about relatives in Savannah, also.

[Bestwifeever]

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Originally Posted by Moemg We should sue CNN they helped cause the stress then we will take the money and go on a world cruise .

I almost laughed when I heard the news people caution Florida and Texas earlier not to go to sleep during the hurricanes. Oh, thanks for telling them--like you guys could get your eight hours of beauty rest in! I'm sure it will take weeks before you feel fully rested and back to normal. Take care of yourselves!

[socca]

I was impressed how the projected eye path predictions for Irma were consistently wrong. The result is to unnecessarily terrify people on the projected path while giving people off the projected path false assurance. The next time around I will pay attention to the spaghetti diagrams but ignore the projected path. Aggregating a bunch of possible paths each with some degree of uncertainty doesn't create a path with any greater certainty, but the talking heads in the media don't treat the aggregated (derived) path that way. The path of the eye is extremely important considering how rapidly wind speeds fall off with increasing distance from the eye.

[Khan]

Trash, recycle, and mulch pickup resumes tomorrow.
Didn't sleep well.
Not going to put the boat back into the water until after Maria goes away.

[LOL!]

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Originally Posted by socca I was impressed how the projected eye path predictions for Irma were consistently wrong.

I was not surprised that the eye path predictions for Irma were consistently correct. I was surprised that folks didn't seem to understand what a cone of probability is, how it changes, how large hurricanes are, how far and what velocities winds occur from the center, how hurricanes create rain, and many other things. Maybe TV weatherpeople dumb it down too much.

The weather reports from the NWS that I saw always had Irma making a 90 degree turn off Cuba and heading north anywhere up the Florida peninsula from about 100 miles offshore to the east or west. That is, the entire Florida peninsula was affected. And that's exactly what happened.

[NW-Bound]

Speaking of Maria, the current forecast calls for it to hit Puerto Rico again after Irma. Good grief!

[Blue Collar Guy]

600,000 still with no electric, out tr 4.9 million. Thats over a week. Compare this to new york city.

Customers Out of Service:
56
Customers Served:
3,323,537



I bet those 56 are making a huge ruckus right now.