It will be a grim weekend for some by accounts. Good luck and stay safe, one and all.
My power went out on Friday and I didn't get my generator to power my home until yesterday, so 24 hours with a generator that wouldn't send the power it was making to the house. It's fixed now so I'm here but crunching is definitely being hampered by the lack of power from the power company!! Could be another day or say before the power comes back on, my neighborhood had almost zero damage but the eye of Hurricane Florence did go right over my house. More rain expected today and some gusty winds too but nothing like Friday.
I cannot imagine the damage done if the area had been hit by a cat 4. Looking at the pics online today its unbelievable that this was the result of a cat 1 or less.
I cannot imagine the damage done if the area had been hit by a cat 4. Looking at the pics online today its unbelievable that this was the result of a cat 1 or less.
I cannot imagine the damage done if the area had been hit by a cat 4. Looking at the pics online today its unbelievable that this was the result of a cat 1 or less.
Alot of the problem is the low lying areas inherent in building near the coast line, fortunately the builder added alot of fill so my neighborhood is 30 feet above sea level and we never flooded. Add in the mandatory 'retention ponds' where the water runoff 'settles' to keep dirt etc from getting into other areas and we did just fine. A few people lost a few asphalt shingles here and there and one person lost some siding that apparently wasn't nailed on correctly and a few trees are now leaning or actually came down and as a whole the neighborhood did very well. The builder clear cut the neighborhood when he built it so there are no tall or large trees anywhere in the neighborhood, just imported palm trees. The builder paid a 6 million dollar fine for clear cutting but it may have saved some homes in the process. Palm trees are not native to North Carolina and they can have shallower root systems because of it meaning they are susceptible to leaning or falling over in large storms. One of mine is leaning and they will have to come fix it in the next week or so, the things are VERY heavy and it needs a mini bulldozer to fix it. They will bring in one with tracks to spread out the weight but the ground is way too wet even for that right now.
Rule 3 infractions aside, gentlemen, ;-) this Ffing must admit to remaining mighty confused. One laboured with the belief the win was Kavanagh's. Perhaps an error on my part.
Good to see both Mikey and Robl post (post-Florence) however. One trusts your shoulder trouble, Robl, is now being addressed, sir.
@drupal link issue: Will this work any better, one wonders?
Sir Rodney Ffing wrote:It
My power went out on Friday and I didn't get my generator to power my home until yesterday, so 24 hours with a generator that wouldn't send the power it was making to the house. It's fixed now so I'm here but crunching is definitely being hampered by the lack of power from the power company!! Could be another day or say before the power comes back on, my neighborhood had almost zero damage but the eye of Hurricane Florence did go right over my house. More rain expected today and some gusty winds too but nothing like Friday.
I cannot imagine the damage
I cannot imagine the damage done if the area had been hit by a cat 4. Looking at the pics online today its unbelievable that this was the result of a cat 1 or less.
robl wrote:I cannot imagine
Congratulations on passing
Congratulations on passing through the eye of a hurricane. Not many can say that.
Richard
robl wrote:I cannot imagine
Alot of the problem is the low lying areas inherent in building near the coast line, fortunately the builder added alot of fill so my neighborhood is 30 feet above sea level and we never flooded. Add in the mandatory 'retention ponds' where the water runoff 'settles' to keep dirt etc from getting into other areas and we did just fine. A few people lost a few asphalt shingles here and there and one person lost some siding that apparently wasn't nailed on correctly and a few trees are now leaning or actually came down and as a whole the neighborhood did very well. The builder clear cut the neighborhood when he built it so there are no tall or large trees anywhere in the neighborhood, just imported palm trees. The builder paid a 6 million dollar fine for clear cutting but it may have saved some homes in the process. Palm trees are not native to North Carolina and they can have shallower root systems because of it meaning they are susceptible to leaning or falling over in large storms. One of mine is leaning and they will have to come fix it in the next week or so, the things are VERY heavy and it needs a mini bulldozer to fix it. They will bring in one with tracks to spread out the weight but the ground is way too wet even for that right now.
Kavanagh
WOO HOO!! I hadn't thought of that, I will have to check with the local weather service to be sure but that was the preliminary statement.
Kavanagh
I too will join you in your congratulations AND pass to baton to you for the next game while I gracefully bow out.
robl wrote:Kavanagh
It turns out Hurricane Florence went over Wrightsville Beach which is just East of Wilmington, NC. That is about 40 miles North of me up the Coast.
I will gracefully take the win though, thank you very much, and hopefully do the next game well!
mikey wrote:robl
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_(cyclone)[/url] Might have still been inside.
<ed>Looks like there is a bug in the URL detection for Dupral.
Rule 3 infractions aside,
Rule 3 infractions aside, gentlemen, ;-) this Ffing must admit to remaining mighty confused. One laboured with the belief the win was Kavanagh's. Perhaps an error on my part.
Good to see both Mikey and Robl post (post-Florence) however. One trusts your shoulder trouble, Robl, is now being addressed, sir.
@drupal link issue: Will this work any better, one wonders?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_(cyclone)