Hurricane Florence headed to the East Coast

HD & WD are okay but no power. Homer and Tempstar were on yesterday. I am sure they may have tips & advice after this storm. They are Survival Monkeys.

 

The coast is still a mess and will be for some time. Many counties on the coast have effectively 100% power outages at this time. Locally (touch wood), I haven't lost power yet and we should be outside of the flood plain, even for something record setting (unless it's like, biblical). Doesn't help, however, when we get an emergency alert system warning for "our county" with little to no differentiation for lower and higher ground.

 

Yup, for the last three days it was nothing but "you all gonna DIE!". Now, there's power outages and some flooding (neither for me thankfully) and amazingly enough, Home Depot across the street STILL HAS GENERATORS for sale...yes, they have gotten multiple shipments, but they have been able to keep them coming and have never once run out of at least having some to sell.

Meanwhile, people I know on the coast (long story) have a generator, had gas...and ran out. And with their neighbor's permission (this would be the neighbor who EVACUATED so as not to get caught in WILMINGTON, NC during a HURRICANE), are siphoning gas from the neighbor's jet skis for the generator.

 

I got a report that the power is out around Ft. Bragg, but a survey of army buddies in the Carolinas says that's about it for problems with power on in most cases.

 

Little more than that:

North Carolina Power Outages Map

 

Just got home from taking 150 gallons of diesel to our transmitter in Dillon, SC. The flooding is going to be a real issue behind this storm. I-95 is closed at exit 181 both ways up into NC, Hwy 501 into Myrtle Beach closed in several places, most back roads have flooding at any point that it crosses a creek or ditch. 1 hour normal trip took 3 hours. Hwy 9 was cleared in time for the trip home. Thanks for the app called WAZE! When I'm not so beat I'll write up a lessons learned post.
The rest of the tree still in the thick of this take care!

 

Glad you're back safe. Hopefully things clear up before you have to make your next run. Not looking forward to the drive to UNC to get the daughter back up there. Clear roads for my part of the trip but I'm sure a bunch of extra traffic because of the other closures.

 

If you are referring to my post, I was actually replying to zimmy. Your reply came in as I was typing up mine. It was pretty obvious to me that you were being...you

 

Here are some pictures of the damage. Deadly Florence Hammers the Carolinas (PHOTOS)
It will take years to recover from this.

I just read that officials are warning that a dam in Ash county is failing.

 

When the weather people thought this storm was going to head more towards the Virginia coast I found out my last house near Langley was in a mandatory evac zone.
That would have sucked.

 

Simmer down and be prepared. They were talking tornadoes in PA today. Flo may be coming for you.

And it took Vermont years to replace bridges and roads after Irene. Losing a home and everything upwards of a year. My former family was in a flood in OR. They spent 9 months living in their barn.

PS- NC raises chickens, pigs and turkeys. Prices will increase in the supermarkets. Stock up on bacon now.

 

Checking in... Just got municipal power... limited municipal water... still under boil water advisory...

thank God for the Beast...



I have a lot of lessons learned and some new Gear reports...