Hurricane Milton

[TroyC]

Power and Internet out at my place. Across the  street power never went out. Some power already restored. No major damage. 12" of rain here in 24 hours.

[Old Greenhorn]

Anybody hear from Caveman yet?

[Jeff]

Yes,  i sent him an r u o k at 9am.

Reply
"Good here. We have a bit
Of a mess"

[aigheadish]

I feel for you guys and I'm glad everyone is ok! 

I was watching from here too and was thinking about this junk hitting at night. So scary! We've had a few big wind storms up here and that's scary enough and nothing like the storms you guys get. 

[Raider Bill]

Got a nice divot in my new roof.
Could have been worse if it hadn't wobbled south at last minute.
They say we got 16" rain in few hours.
Still 10s of thousands without power.

[caveman]

This was an odd storm for me.  I cannot remember one dumping this much rain on us in so short an amount of time.  The one that hit Houston a few years ago must have been even worse.

We did not have any damage to structures.  I'm glad we boarded up.  For five or six hours last night sticks and limbs could be heard smacking the boards.  We lost power around midnight.  I walked outside a few times during the storm to check on trees near the house or to try to see fences close to the house.


This is the road leaving our house headed towards U.S. 98.


Heading east, away from the highway.  I'm going to let it dry out a few days before I get too crazy with the cleanup.  Some neighbors had some damage to machine sheds.  We were very fortunate that it was not a lot worse.

[customsawyer]

Glad everyone is okay. All the other stuff can be fixed.

[Raider Bill]

455k people still without power here.
 Accordng to the outage map.
I've got power but no internet so my business is still closed.

[TroyC]

Still without electricity and Internet in Orlando. Everyone around me has electric 

[Ianab]

Still without electricity and Internet in Orlando. Everyone around me has electric 

Sucks, but the power co usually prioritizes the biggest faults first, and then works down to the minor ones that only affect a couple of houses.  If one repair gets power back to 500 folks, and another only reconnects 2, well you can understand which one gets fixed first. 

We had a bad wind storm years ago, and were nearly 3 days before power came back on. Not that they didn't have a crew working on it, just they started at the main road and had to fix about 20 faults in about 7 miles of line before they got to the end of the line at our place. But each fault they fixed got a couple more houses livened up. 

[NewYankeeSawmill]

Still without electricity and Internet in Orlando. Everyone around me has electric 

Sucks, but the power co usually prioritizes the biggest faults first, and then works down to the minor ones that only affect a couple of houses.  If one repair gets power back to 500 folks, and another only reconnects 2, well you can understand which one gets fixed first.

Shortly after we moved to our property out in the country we had a pretty bad ice-storm that took out a lot of power lines, one of those 2-days-w/o-power storms. When the crew finally came to get me hooked back up I was rather grateful... They're not allowed to accept gifts from customers, but I put a couple of frozen Porterhouse steaks in each of the cabs and told them dinner was on me.
Yaknow, my power's only ever out for a few hours now? Weird.

[trimguy]

How did Jmoore ( spelling )make out ?

[Raider Bill]

Still 400k  without power as of this morning in my county.
Having problems getting parts is slowing things down.
No gas or propane to be had.

[caveman]

JMoore did well in this storm.  He had enough roof damage from the last one (Helene) that he'll need a new roof.  He has a tarp and sandbags on his house right now.  He built a vinyl privacy fence around his backyard last year, but he took all of the uprights out of it and strapped them on a trailer deck, so his fence is fine.  He used four ratchet straps to keep his gazebo attached to terra firma.

I may try to get him over here to help put metal back on our lumber piles today.  It's just still so wet at my place that everything is a muddy mess.