Tropical Storm Expected to Hit the West Coast of Florida Late This Week!

My contacts in Tallahassee benefited from the storm making landfall further east than expected and never lost power. FSU is back to school on Monday, so it wasn't too bad there. They dodged a bullet. Probably helped by the speed of the storm at 20+mph. I'm further west and saw nothing more than the equivalent of an extended summer thunderstorm.

Unfortunately, friends in western NC caught the deluge and their cars were flooded nearly to the roof at their apartment complex.
 
"CATASTROPHIC TRANSPORTATION IMPACTS IN WESTERN NC
I-40 and I-26 are impassable in multiple locations. All roads in Western North Carolina should be considered closed. Motorists should not travel in this area."

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Official real-time traffic and travel information for North Carolina. We provide details about road closures, accidents, congestion, and work zones. Additional map data includes traffic cameras, North Carolina rest areas, and charging stations for electronic vehicles.
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Cape Coral was more than 100 miles from the storm yet we took 5' of surge and it removed my boat lift canopy. Fortunately, the house is 8' above sea level.
 
Some here may recall, I bought the fixer upper house in Bradenton on a canal my daughter and her husband wanted after many delays caused by the closing agent (long story). I gave them a two year mortgage. That was in June of 2021, they got all the remodeling done and refinanced in 9 months, yahoo! The water pushed into Tampa bay by hurricane Helene made it up into their canal and 2 ft deep in their home. All new drywall, appliances, kitchen cupboards, furniture ruined. They are now in a hotel, expecting they may rent an apartment soon. They do have flood insurance, but this is a big disruption in their life. The neighbors house is built on stilts, no damage. Now they have to decide, do they repair this and continue the concern every summer, or tear it down and rebuild on stilts. The repairs will be way less then what the house is worth.
 
Time2 it may be possible to raise their house. I've seen it done many times in Louisiana coastal areas.
 
Upstate SC here (near Asheville, NC). Lots of damage, no power for 1.2MM people. They are projecting out for a week or more.

Flieger
 

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All kinds of raising operations in NC.

Raising a church on Ocracoke island, NC.
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Flieger said:
Wow, that looks pretty dangerous! Or is it a joke?

Flieger
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No, no, no, not a joke at all. This is the process.

They raise it really high with temporary columns so that workers can get under there and do what they need to do by installing stilts or concrete block foundations. Then they lower it onto the new foundation, which is about 1/2 this height. This is what it looks like today, after the raising operation:
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JoeWras said:
No, no, no, not a joke at all. This is the process.

They raise it really high with temporary columns so that workers can get under there and do what they need to do by installing stilts or concrete block foundations. Then they lower it onto the new foundation, which is about 1/2 this height. This is what it looks like today, after the raising operation:
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Wow, looks effective but expensive. Better than rebuilding after a disaster, though. Thanks for sharing.

Heh, heh, our concrete building isn't a candidate for this treatment. However, I think we start at about 20 feet ASL and the first apartments are maybe 12 feet above that (including the elevators.) So a storm surge or tsunami of 30 feet would mess up our entryway and lobby, but not destroy any apartments or the elevators (most people enter from the parking structure, so climbing the steps to the elevators is not a big issue.)
 
Always wondered, what happens to all the joints when you raise something up like that? Does all the plaster/drywall crack and the doors and windows become out of plumb?
 
MBSC said:
"CATASTROPHIC TRANSPORTATION IMPACTS IN WESTERN NC
I-40 and I-26 are impassable in multiple locations. All roads in Western North Carolina should be considered closed. Motorists should not travel in this area."

DriveNC.gov | North Carolina Traffic, Road Closures & Travel Information

Official real-time traffic and travel information for North Carolina. We provide details about road closures, accidents, congestion, and work zones. Additional map data includes traffic cameras, North Carolina rest areas, and charging stations for electronic vehicles.
drivenc.gov drivenc.gov
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Eastbound i40 near asheville:
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You know, it's not fair that we get Florida's hurricanes but not their ocean views 😄
 
Koolau said:
Wow, looks effective but expensive. Better than rebuilding after a disaster, though. Thanks for sharing.

Heh, heh, our concrete building isn't a candidate for this treatment. However, I think we start at about 20 feet ASL and the first apartments are maybe 12 feet above that (including the elevators.) So a storm surge or tsunami of 30 feet would mess up our entryway and lobby, but not destroy any apartments or the elevators (most people enter from the parking structure, so climbing the steps to the elevators is not a big issue.)
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On Ocracoke, and other areas in NC, the national flood insurance program basically has told many people to either raise their properties or be denied insurance. After the bad storm surge on Ocracoke from Dorian in 2019, the feds actually paid a significant portion of the cost for raising structures IF the property owners would then hold flood insurance for a certain period. So a lot of structures all over eastern NC have been raised.

This is something that the complicated bureaucracy did that makes a ton of sense.
 
MissMolly said:
Central KY here. Power has been out all day since 10:30 am. Just came back on. One tree in the backyard got struck by lightning as I was looking out the window. Two big booms. Exploded the tree. Another tree in the front got blown down by the horrible winds. Limbs, sticks and leaves all over the place. We have a huge mess to clean up.
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Did you lose cell service as well or have you heard that it's out anywhere? I'm in a chat group with someone that thinks Tracfone cut them off but more likely Hurricane related in my opinion. They are in rural Kentucky.
 
I'll probably be deployed to help with this soon as part of my disaster relief certification, but right now there is so much chaos and confusion due to the extensive infrastructure breakdown, we've been asked to stand down and stay away until the top organizers come up with a plan.

In the NC mountains, it is bad, really bad. Like historically bad. Worst in 100 years and very widespread.
 
RetiredAndLovingIt said:
Did you lose cell service as well or have you heard that it's out anywhere? I'm in a chat group with someone that thinks Tracfone cut them off but more likely Hurricane related in my opinion. They are in rural Kentucky.
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No, didn't lose cell service. It worked fine and I even used the hot spot to stream shows since we were stuck inside all day. We have T-Mobile.
 
I hope all impacted by the storm are safe and secure.

I’m heading to Greensboro, NC (actually McLeansville) in 2 weeks. I’ve never been to the area so trying to check the news for local damage is hard because I don’t know what’s where. Can anyone comment on how that area made out? I’m driving down from NJ so I’ll be taking 85/40.
 
North Carolina DOT has asked thatpeople consider all roads in the western part of the state closed. Apparently, emergency and repair crews are being hindered.

Asheville is a mess.
 
Chuckanut said:
North Carolina DOT has asked thatpeople consider all roads in the western part of the state closed. Apparently, emergency and repair crews are being hindered.

Asheville is a mess.
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I did see that but Asheville is 3 hours west of Greensboro. I haven’t seen anything about how central and eastern NC made out.
 
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