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Buellish
Posted on Thursday, September 05, 2019 - 07:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Have our coastal Badwebbers evacuated?Have somewhere to go?Carlos,Christy,Brankin.......
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1313
Posted on Thursday, September 05, 2019 - 08:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Carlos and Kristi moved North a couple of years ago, so they are well out of harms way.

I'm staying put. Hopefully - as is predicted - Dorian blows right through this area. Last years Florence just hovered over the area.

All the best to everyone else in the storms path - I know there are others.
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Buellish
Posted on Thursday, September 05, 2019 - 10:31 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I'm didn't get the memo.
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Buellish
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 05:13 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

How are you faring this morning Brankin?
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1313
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 06:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

It wasn't that strong of a storm. No damage experienced. However the latest projection for restoring power is "by 11:00 p.m. on 9/8"! Duke Energy Progress has really shown their ineptitude on this one! I won't go into detail on that as I hate using my phone for internet.
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Hughlysses
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 08:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I’m about 40 miles from the coast. We lost power at 8:15 Thursday morning, which was unexpected as it wasn’t that windy and no trees near us came down. We did discover oddness in the local power grid though (I live in a tiny town of about 20 homes) my next door neighbor didn’t lose power, nor did the guy across the street. It turned out about half the homes lost power while the others didn’t. My power finally came back on about 4:30 pm, then 10 or 15 minutes later the homes that hadn’t lost power earlier lost power, and didn’t get it back til 3 am on Friday.

Thankfully no significant damage or flooding near me, but I’m about ready to invest in a whole house generator. Between hurricanes and ice storms, We can count on losing power for a day or so a couple of times a year.
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Ratbuell
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 09:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Sounds like varying "legs" of the power grid fed different homes. Your leg went out; was restored; their leg went out; and so on.

Glad to hear you're OK - keep us posted on your generator project, it's something I've thought about as well since I live where it is EXTREMELY cold in the winter (windward side of the top of a mountain, taking the brunt of any incoming storms)...
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Hughlysses
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 10:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

^ Joe- I imagine you’re right on the power distribution.

I have a small (1750 W?) portable generator. It’ll run a refrigerator and a few lights, but the power it makes is pretty “dirty” and I wouldn’t trust it to run any modern electronics. It’ll only go about 1.5 hours on a tank of gas under full load, and the old B&S engine is noisy as hell.

2 or 3 of my neighbors have permanent standby generators fueled by natural gas. They say if it weren’t for the slight noise, they wouldn’t know they’d lost power. I have gas heat, gas hot water, and a gas stove, so it shouldn’t take an insane amount of power to handle my whole house. 3 days of watching Generac ads on the Weather Channel May have finally sold me.
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Aesquire
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 10:12 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Ditto on generator.

My parents, after a multi day outage, blizzard, that had me hauling wood over to burn in fireplace & not come close to keeping living room warm, went for a while house Generac. Surprisingly small unit, but the generator was half the cost. Pro install & multiple boxes doubled cost to $10k+.

That included running gas lines the length of the house in the basement & out to unit, plus delay boxes to turn off furnace & clothes dryer while generator came up to speed. They can run dryer Or AC, but not both at once.

And yes, Mother will wash clothes during nuclear attack or Second Coming. Scandahoovian. White carpets.

The auto on & off works fine & has been used, since we lose power multiple times a year with storms. Installation company does yearly maintenance, so for elderly couple The high price is justified.

The local power companies have already sent trucks & work crews down to the Carolinas. We'll need their crews for winter storms.

Other than flooding, which around here is localized, we get regularly hit with disaster storms that get a tiny fraction of the fame that Hurricanes get. Maybe the new Climate Propaganda/News Ratings Boost habit of giving every storm a name will change that a bit.

That last is unfair jealousy. ; ) We don't get storm surge and cities flattened and flooded, like Coastal folk do. Just yards of snow, inches of ice, and gale force winds for days. Roofs get torn up, trees wrecked, but unless a tornado hits, the houses are still here. That's an order of magnitude less destruction! That it happens more often doesn't make it equal.
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1313
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 10:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hugh,

I could kiss you...

As I was reading your post and eating my hurricane staple of peanut butter on a flour tortilla, I read "lost power", and my power came back on!

I've got a MASSIVE hangover today and sure wasn't looking forward to sitting in a house with no air conditioning.
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Ratbuell
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 11:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yea, I don't live where we have CNG...but I do have an old oil burning boiler in the basement (house was built with hot-water baseboard heat, but I now have a heat pump). Along with the boiler...there's a 2,000 gal oil tank underground. If I can get a nice diesel generator with an auto transfer switch...I'd be golden. And with 19" thick stone walls...I'd NEVER hear it.

Hung over...you sound like my mom. 83 years old, just outside of Jax FL, she closed the hurricane shutters, bought a case (or was it 2?) of wine...and had friends over.

No admittance without wine in-hand.
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Hughlysses
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 11:08 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

No admittance without wine in-hand.

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1313
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 11:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Taken in New Bern yesterday:

Lowrider boat
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Tootal
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 11:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Now that's a awesome looking submarine!
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Hughlysses
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 12:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

So, the biggest thing on Facebook regarding the storm was a red Jeep SUV that someone got stuck on the beach the morning of the hurricane. This has been a meme goldmine for the past few days:

https://www.southernthing.com/a-red-jeep-got-stuck -on-myrtle-beach-before-hurricane-dorian-and-the-i nternet-is-having-way-too-much-fun-2640232799.html

A friend of mine in Myrtle Beach heard the owner loaned it to his cousin to drive so he could get a photo of the spectacular sunrise that morning. He got it stuck, walked off and left it! BTW- driving on the beach is illegal in SC. The owner learned of the fiasco when the police showed up at his door on Friday.
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Thumper74
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 03:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I don't think boats work that way...
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Ratbuell
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 04:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Oh...they DO.

They just SHOULDN'T.
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Sifo
Posted on Saturday, September 07, 2019 - 05:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I was on Maui when Iniki when through. The morning after had a sailboat that had come loose from it's mooring broken up on the beach. Largest piece I saw was a couple of feet of the bow. Talked to the owner who was picking through the debris, looking very sad.
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Whatever
Posted on Sunday, September 08, 2019 - 11:51 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Brankin doesn’t evacuate... during Florence I couldn’t get him to budge...
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Buellish
Posted on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 09:19 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yea,I couldn't get him to budge from the couch when he was at my house.
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1313
Posted on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 12:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yea,I couldn't get him to budge from the couch when he was at my house.

Oh come on...We went to the airport - well, train station that would take me to the airport - daily, until they decided they could get me back to New Bern.

Contrary to popular opinion, I will evacuate - under the right circumstances... Florence petered out and turned inland (but still did a bang up job in these here parts), and Dorian petered out and turned out to see - but did make landfall in Morehead City, NC so I've heard.

Just because a Hurricane starts out as a Category 3 (Florence) or Category 5 (Dorian), doesn't mean that it will be that strong all the time...
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Uncle
Posted on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 01:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I don't know a lot about boats but, isn't that sitting a little low in the water?
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Oldog
Posted on Monday, September 09, 2019 - 02:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Checking In, just a power outage till friday and a small mess in the yard.
Lucky,

Last year while recovering from surgery, 3 weeks no lights, thought I was going to have to have sand bags.
wound up replacing the roof and the AC unit this year from florence last Yr..
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